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mstiles_127829
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Nov 19, 2004

Custom load balancer

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but is it possible to write a custom script for load balancing? The standard options on the Big IP are not working for us. Is there a framework f...
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Nov 19, 2004
Theoretically, you can also write a custom external monitor (EAV) script that does the database query to get the server load, do some number crunching to get some dynamic ratio, then use iControl's LocalLB::NodeAddress interface to set that dynamic ratio for the node address in question. This does not provide a way for your script to have its own LB algorithm, but at least it provides a way for your script to greatly influence how traffic is load-balanced.

 

 

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