Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-11-01 Thread LJ LongWing
’ wasn’t sufficient for us to determine that the processes were functional. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patchsk Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 11:18 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: load balancer ars health check ** Just

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread Axton
An f5 health check will drop the member from the pool, thus stopping all traffic to it. It's a bit more extreme than an alarm for an administrator to check. The goal with the health check is to add/remove pool members based on whether or not they work and to do it quickly (within seconds or faste

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread Doug Blair
Look at is this way If the web works, the AR server works and the database works too, and all is well. If the web doesn't work, the AR server might still be functional, but in any case you have to go investigate it :-). Not perfect for metrics, but good enough for administrator's alarms.

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread Doug Blair
s this what I am supposed > to see? > > > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patchsk > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:18 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: load balancer ars health check > &

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread patchsk
Thanks Axton for the information. I am checking with our loadbalancer guys if they have any experience writing iRules. Seems like this has been a pain for several customers. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread patchsk
Thanks Doug, but we can use this only when we are 100% web. We do not want to tie the app load balancing with web. Because we still have some users using the client, so there are scenarios where a web maynot work but the app could still be working.. Also we are not always sure that our midtiers wi

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread Axton
** > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *patchsk > *Sent:* Monday, October 31, 2011 12:18 AM > *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > *Subject:* load balancer ars health check > > ** ** > > ** Just curious to s

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread Sanford, Claire
When I run this I get a reply that says “200_OK” is this what I am supposed to see? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patchsk Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: load balancer ars health check

Re: load balancer ars health check

2011-10-31 Thread Doug Blair
** Patchsk,Take a look at  http://webserver:port/arsys/samples/StatusCheck.jsp.StatusCheck.jsp actually does exercise the web server, the AR server and the database. You can see the SELECT sent to the database by the MidTier user in your arsql.log, which means that all the components above that are

load balancer ars health check

2011-10-30 Thread patchsk
Just curious to see what are the different health check mechanisms being used for ARS in a load balanced env in different companies. We are using F5 and we have load balancing for Midtiers and also for ARS. For midtiers our health check was to monitor http://webserver:port/arsys/home url. And no