Ok seems my trouble came from using "balance static-rr".
Actually when using the unix socket to set a weight to 50% it tells:
"Backend is using a static LB algorithm and only accepts weights '0%'
and '100%'."
So that explains my issue.
Abd the manual states "Each server is used in turns, according to their
weights.", and that led me to think it should support weights.. While i
should have also read the next sentence..: "changing a server's weight
on the fly will have no effect" for static-rr..
Sorry for the noise.
Steve Howard schreef op 12-1-2014 2:36:
On 1/11/14, Malcolm Turnbull <malcolm@...> wrote:
Sorry only just got around to looking at this and updating my blog entry:
Yes the important bit missing was "agent-check"....
But my testing with Dev21 seems to bring the servers back fine with
any percentage reading i.e. 10% 75% etc. Please let me know if anyone
else is having an issue, thanks.
server Win2008R2 192.168.64.50:3389 weight 100 check agent-check
agent-port 3333 inter 2000 rise 2 fall 3 minconn 0 maxconn 0
on-marked-down shutdown-sessions
I just tested this today and can confirm that bringing a backend server back
in works for me with "100%", "99%", etc.
Also, "down" reliably takes the server out of the backend, and only a
percentage such as "50%" brings it back in.
For those struggling, I will say that the status string returned from the
socket on the backend server must have a newline terminator, or perhaps a
carriage return. Simon's example using echo does this by default.
I was testing with a simple python socket server, and couldn't get anything
to work. As soon as I used client.send("down" + '\n'), everything worked.
I had to add debug statements to src/checks.c to find this.
Depending on the software you use to return the status to the agent, it may
be worth checking if you are having issues.
Regards,
Steve