HAproxy in a failover setup - Secondary firewall dashboard widget can't connect

[nikolaii]

Hello,

I have a 2 pfsense failover setup with an HAProxy configured on each firewall.

The service itself is working, but the HAProxy dashboard widget on the secondary firewall says:

Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to unix:///tmp/haproxy.socket (Connection refused) in /usr/local/pkg/haproxy_socketinfo.inc on line 43

Is there something I've missed in the configuration, or is it because the HAProxy doesn't run on the secondary firewall because it is in a "backup" state?

Thank you.
Nicolas

[PiBa]

Correct (when monitoring a carp-ip), haproxy is not running on the second node, which means its not listening on the stats socket either.

I suppose the 'error' could be made a bit more 'user friendly', or checked that haproxy is running before trying to access the socket.. But that just never made it to my todo list..

[nikolaii]

All righty, thank you for the explanation :)

Nicolas