Mark Clarkson wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:45 +0100, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> If these services are dynamic, then how do you know which server to >> connect to, do you have them DNS aliased or something, or perhaps you >> just try all of the servers until you find one running and use that? >> > > Sorry, I didn't mean dynamic ip or dhcp. The ip addresses are fixed. > > >> Just a stab in the dark given the limited info. Disabling service checks >> manually doesn't sound like a good idea if these services really are >> dynamic... you'd have to do this manually a lot? >> > > When the servers are initially started the administrator decides what > services will run on each host and the load balancer figures out > where those services are running somehow. > > The administrator runs startup scripts to start one or more [java] > services on each machine. > > I plan to modify the scripts to remotely disable active service checks > and send a passive check result. I'll be doing this using ssh. > > Sound sensible? > Yes that sounds fine. One question, have you considered testing the services through the load balancer since this is what the users will see?
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