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 webpage. The use case for this would be the creation > of a shell script that could call such a command-prompt command, as > part of an automated hot-deploy or continuous deployment architecture. > I don't know anything about the httpd source and don't know if this > would have to be part of a new executable if not an addition to httpd > or apacectl....what does everyone / anyone think? This is my first > time emailing this group: for this request to be considered, do I need > to create an item in Bugzilla? > I could also think about trying to implement this sort of thing myself > and submitting it as a patch, but I could very much use guidance > towards what to create / modify and where it would go in the > codebase...... >
Right now, the balancer-manager doesn't require the use of the web-interface. You can talk straight http to it via curl/httpclient/whatevs. So creating a php/perl/python/ruby script that interfaces with the manager should be no prob at all.
