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Proxy error during site update

Proxy error during site update

During a site update on a Checkmk Appliance, you may encounter an Apache proxy error: "Error reading from remote server."

LAST TESTED ON CHECKMK 2.3.0P1

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Getting Started

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Problem

During a site update on Checkmk Appliance, you may run into a Proxy error from Apache.

Proxy Error. The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request. Reason: Error reading from remote server

 

Solution

If you encounter an error, the update will not be successful. To enable the webconf to function properly, please follow these steps:

  1. Check the update.log on the Checkmk Appliance.

    You will notice that the update.log is hanging and full of errors.

    root@mylinuxhost:/mnt/auto$ cat /omd/sites/mysite/var/log/update.log

    .

  2. You need to solve all the problems.
    .

  3. Now you need to rerun the update config command to update the whole config.

    OMD[mysite]:~$ cmk-update-config -vv

    .

  4. Start the Site. The webconf should work again.

    If the webconf is not working, try to restart the Apache and webconf daemon.

    root@mylinuxhost~$ systemctl status webconfd
    root@mylinuxhost~$ systemctl status apache2.service

     

The Update was completely finished. You received only an error because of some errors mentioned in the update.log.

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