Configuring agents to communicate through a forward proxy
If your firewall rules do not allow transparent outbound HTTPS connections
to external hosts, you can configure IBM® monitoring agents to
send traffic to a forward proxy. Edit the KDH_FORWARDPROXY
environment variable to
configure agents to communicate through the forward proxy.
About this task
When a forward proxy is used, the agent first opens a TCP connection with the proxy. The agent sends an HTTP CONNECT request and the target endpoint (Cloud APM server) URL to the forward proxy. Then, the forward proxy establishes a TCP connection with the target endpoint and sets up an HTTP or HTTPS tunneling session between the agent and the Cloud APM server.
The monitoring agent does not support authenticating proxies, which means the agent does not support logging on to a forward proxy by using a configured proxy user ID and password.
Procedure
Complete these steps to configure agents to communicate through a forward proxy.