Low level tools for use with the Symphony public REST API
Various commands are available either from the command line or the GUI. The following pages describe each command.
The Probe Pod command attempts to discover the correct configuration parameters for a pod given a host name. It does this by probing various hostname and port number combinations looking for well known API endpoints. If it is provided with a client certificate then it will attempt to authenticate using that certificate, which if successful greatly increases the chances of an accurate result.
Even without a certificate this command is able to create a correct configuration in most cases.
The Check Pod command calls health check and other API endpoints to assess the health or otherwise of a Pod. If an authentication certificate is provided then a more detailed assessment can be carried out but even without this a number of checks can be performed.
The Check Certs command attempts to authenticate and performs a set of validity checks on the provided client certificate and trust store and the server certificates presented by the various server endpoints. This command is intended to provide a clear and reliable assessment of the validity of the client certificate and trust store and to distinguish the various failure modes more easily and definitively than can be conveniently done by examination of log files.