We use Cisco's Ironport to filter our web traffic. I would like to setup a HTTP Monitor to let me know when it is not working. We use wccp redirect on our firewall, so we don't have to set up proxy on our machines.
I can't seem to find a configuration to work. I put in a site that should be blocked. I logged onto a machine with the credentials I have setup in APM to verify I got our block page when trying to visit a page that should be blocked. The first line on this page is "This Page is Blocked". I setup the search string for this and set fail if found to false. So in theory if it tries to go to say www.games.com and gets blocked as it should, then it should fined the search string and think everything is ok.
If it doesn't get the block page and actually gets to the site, it wont find the search string and should trigger an alert.
When I test, if fails saying "Not Available" status Access Denied, authorization failed. Watching the ironport logs, it doesn't even hit it or show up.
If I remove the search string and uncheck follow redirect, it test successfully. I still don't see it show up in the ironport logs. I should see both pass and fails in the logs.
Anyone else get something like this working even if with another web filtering product if not ironport?
Thanks
