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While Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance will soon add support for proxy specification via the UI when configuring your connector/Sensor Collector, the following workaround explains how to configure proxy settings using Docker environment variables.

You can configure proxy settings by setting the HTTPS_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY environment variables in either of the following ways:

  • Set the environment variables in your system environment before running Sensor Collector, or
  • Add the variables directly to the Sensor Collector .env file
    The .env file can be found at: /opt/roadrunner/
Required Proxy Environment Variables

When running Sensor Collector version 0.652.0 or later behind a proxy, you must configure both HTTPS_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY.

Sensor Collector performs certificate validation checks that require outbound HTTP access (for example, certificate revocation list checks). If only HTTPS_PROXY is set, these checks may fail and prevent the connector from establishing a meta connection.

Example configuration:

HTTPS_PROXY=username:password@IP_Address_or_URL_of_proxy-server
HTTP_PROXY=username:password@IP_Address_or_URL_of_proxy-server

Notes:

  1. Replace username:password and IP_Address_or_URL_of_proxy-server with valid credentials and values provided by the customer before running the run.sh script.
  2. If you use a URL reference for the proxy, ensure that valid DNS is configured for the Docker container before running the run.sh script.
  3. If you are specifying a URL, do NOT include the protocol.
GOOD:
HTTPS_PROXY=someProxyURL.com
HTTP_PROXY=someProxyURL.com
BAD:
HTTPS_PROXY=https://someProxyURL.com
HTTP_PROXY=http://someProxyURL.com

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