Re: New feature request for balancer-manager: command line usage

2012-11-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 30, 2012, at 3:12 PM, John M jfm.apa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a new feature request for the balancer-manager: the ability to enable or disable servers in the balancer using the command line, instead of using the only way that exists that I know of: the balancer-manager

Re: New feature request for balancer-manager: command line usage

2012-11-01 Thread John M
It's correct that somebody could use an http client to do the load balancing, it's just awkward: there isn't a published API for it. The script / client might need to have some intelligence built into it, to try to figure out what the current states of the load balanced servers are, and to handle

Re: New feature request for balancer-manager: command line usage

2012-11-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
You're right that the API really needs to be documented. My hope is that once the make balancer-manager changes sticky backports are approved and in 2.4.x, I'll write up in more detail how the b-m works and its API. afaik, nginx lacks any sort of dynamic reverse-proxy reconfig capability. It's

Re: New feature request for balancer-manager: command line usage

2012-10-31 Thread Graham Leggett
On 30 Oct 2012, at 9:12 PM, John M jfm.apa...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new feature request for the balancer-manager: the ability to enable or disable servers in the balancer using the command line, instead of using the only way that exists that I know of: the balancer-manager webpage. The

New feature request for balancer-manager: command line usage

2012-10-30 Thread John M
Hello, I have a new feature request for the balancer-manager: the ability to enable or disable servers in the balancer using the command line, instead of using the only way that exists that I know of: the balancer-manager webpage. The use case for this would be the creation of a shell script