> Of course, what frustrates be about BOTH are hardware > balancer and a JRun cluster, is that they are not aware of > things like CPU usage on the servers. They just keep round > robining traffic as long as the server/instance is up > regardless of how many other requests that server may still > be churning through. I would definitely like suggestions on > how to make our load balancing more aware. I know our > hardware balancer (Foundry ServerIron) supports checking a > hear-beat page, but to my understanding that only tells it > that the application server is running-- not how busy it is.
I don't know about ServerIron specifically, but I do know that some hardware load balancers can pull metric data if it's in a heartbeat page. If so, you could use CF to provide that data using the GetMetricData function. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273771 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
