On Thursday 21 June 2012 12:55:58 Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > We are considering using Pound for load-balancing HTTP requests across a > set of Apache backends. We frequently need to take backends out of > rotation temporarily in order to perform maintenance, but ideally this > would happen in a controlled fashion. In particular, we'd like to be able > to tell Pound to stop sending new requests to a backend without disrupting > any current HTTP connections between that backend and its clients. Is > that sort of controlled quiescing of a backend possible? > > Regards, > > Galen
Yes, specify a HAPort for the backend, which will be used for health checks. If the HAPort stops responding, the service should be gracefully pulled out of the pool and then you can shut down the regular service. You will obviously need something listening on the HAPort that you can take down separately from your Apache instances. The documentation has the full details. - Neil -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
