Checking the status of your nodes

You can use the node status command to check the status of a target node in your HCP system. Any user can perform the node status command. System-level users with the administrator role can enable and disable the node status API.

The request to check the status of a node requires a URL specifying the front-end IP address of the target node. You enter the command in the following format:

http://node-front-end-ip-address/node_status 

You can also request node metrics to be returned with the node HTTP status return code. To request node metrics, you additionally need to:

  • Specify a type URL query parameter with a value of metrics.
  • Specify the format URL query parameter with a value of xml or json.

If you omit the format parameter, you are only returned a response status code.