Re: SetHandler balancer-manager question.

2018-10-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
Yes, it is normal and expected behavior, but one can say that such behavior isn't "correct" or "should be changed", esp now that we can add members dynamically. So I would be +1 on changing the code to show all balancers, regardless of whether they have workers/members or not. > On Oct 23, 2018

SetHandler balancer-manager question.

2018-10-23 Thread jean-frederic clere
Hi, I have started to look how to enhance mod_proxy_balancer to replace mod_cluster, the first question is it normal that a balancer without workers is NOT displayed by the handler? -- Cheers Jean-Frederic

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-14 Thread Luca Toscano
to have a history of the status of each BalancerMember over time (for example to correlate when a backend server was put out of the Balancer set due to health check failures with access/error/etc.. logs after an outage - a balancer-manager history written down somewhere). Hope that this make sense! Luc

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-12 Thread Daniel
Looks very nice indeed! For being a "rough" version looks quite complete. Also the diagram is a cool addition to help people understand how reverse proxying works. I think the examples may need some adjusting with the matching slashes: ProxyPass "/" "http://www.example.com"; should be: ProxyPass

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-12 Thread Stefan Eissing
Very nice! > Am 11.02.2016 um 18:46 schrieb Jim Jagielski : > > A rough and very brief framework of such a guide is now available... > >http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/reverse_proxy.html > > On 2016-02-10 06:21, Luca Toscano wrote: >> 2016-02-10 10:33 GMT+01:00 Stefan Eissing : >

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
A rough and very brief framework of such a guide is now available... http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/reverse_proxy.html On 2016-02-10 06:21, Luca Toscano wrote: > 2016-02-10 10:33 GMT+01:00 Stefan Eissing : > > > If you write one, I write one for http2! :-) > > > > > +1+1+1+1 :) >

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-10 Thread Daniel
Sorry for the intrusion. Since you guys are on it, a brief description telling that mod_slotmem_XXX is REQUIRED if you choose to load any type of mod_lbmethod would also be a good tip to add in the docs. Cheers! El mié., 10 feb. 2016 a las 22:08, Jim Jagielski () escribió: > Work in progress in

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-10 Thread Jim Jagielski
Work in progress in: docs/manual/howto/reverse_proxy.xml cheers!

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-10 Thread Luca Toscano
2016-02-10 10:33 GMT+01:00 Stefan Eissing : > If you write one, I write one for http2! :-) > > +1+1+1+1 :)

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-10 Thread Stefan Eissing
If you write one, I write one for http2! :-) > Am 09.02.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Luca Toscano : > > Hi Jim, > > 2016-02-09 21:25 GMT+01:00 Jim Jagielski : > The more I think of it, a HowTo guide, like the ones we have > for public_html, Authn&Authz, etc regarding reverse proxy > makes the most sens

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-09 Thread Luca Toscano
Hi Jim, 2016-02-09 21:25 GMT+01:00 Jim Jagielski : > The more I think of it, a HowTo guide, like the ones we have > for public_html, Authn&Authz, etc regarding reverse proxy > makes the most sense... > > > On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:55 PM, Tim Bannister > wrote: > > > > On 9 Feb 2016, at 16:02, Raine

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-09 Thread Jim Jagielski
hrieb Jim Jagielski: >>> We currently have really really little info about the balancer-manager in >>> our docs, just a short little blurb on how to enable it and a brief >>> description of what it does [1]. I'd like to extend that, but does it make >>> sens

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-09 Thread Tim Bannister
On 9 Feb 2016, at 16:02, Rainer Jung wrote: > Am 09.02.2016 um 13:25 schrieb Jim Jagielski: >> We currently have really really little info about the balancer-manager in >> our docs, just a short little blurb on how to enable it and a brief >> description of what it does [1

Re: balancer-manager docs

2016-02-09 Thread Rainer Jung
Am 09.02.2016 um 13:25 schrieb Jim Jagielski: We currently have really really little info about the balancer- manager in our docs, just a short little blurb on how to enable it and a brief description of what it does [1]. I'd like to extend that, but does it make sense to add it t

balancer-manager docs

2016-02-09 Thread Jim Jagielski
We currently have really really little info about the balancer- manager in our docs, just a short little blurb on how to enable it and a brief description of what it does [1]. I'd like to extend that, but does it make sense to add it to the mod_proxy_balancer module page, or have a separate

Re: proxy_hcheck: Expr name in balancer manager after graceful restart

2016-01-21 Thread Rainer Jung
Am 22.01.2016 um 00:02 schrieb Jim Jagielski: Almost. ctx->conditions is a per-server struct created during the create per-server phase. It is populated by set_hc_condition() which is run when config directives are run during normal command directive processing. So when we do a graceful restart,

Re: proxy_hcheck: Expr name in balancer manager after graceful restart

2016-01-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
1, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: >> >> The name shown in the Expr table of the balancer manager changes after a >> graceful restart. Before restart it is the symbolic name used in the config, >> e.g. ok234. After the restart it is the full path name of the shared me

Re: proxy_hcheck: Expr name in balancer manager after graceful restart

2016-01-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
Thx... will look into it. I wonder if it's a pool lifetime thing or something else. > On Jan 21, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: > > The name shown in the Expr table of the balancer manager changes after a > graceful restart. Before restart it is the symbolic name u

proxy_hcheck: Expr name in balancer manager after graceful restart

2016-01-21 Thread Rainer Jung
The name shown in the Expr table of the balancer manager changes after a graceful restart. Before restart it is the symbolic name used in the config, e.g. ok234. After the restart it is the full path name of the shared memory file. The expression itself shown in the second column is OK before

Re: Balancer manager

2015-05-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
Obviously, one would only be able to remove a stopped/disabled worker. > On Apr 29, 2015, at 4:34 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Right now, the balancer manager allows for a member to be > disabled/stopped, but it canno

Re: Balancer manager

2015-05-06 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
elski wrote: > Can you list 'em here? I'd like to help w/ adding them :) > >> On Apr 25, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> There are also some neat-o features I added in my notes during ACNA to >> stick into the balancer

Re: Balancer manager

2015-04-29 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Right now, the balancer manager allows for a member to be > disabled/stopped, but it cannot *remove* that member... > Seems to me that that would be good, especially since > we could always re-use that slot. > That means

Re: Balancer manager

2015-04-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
Can you list 'em here? I'd like to help w/ adding them :) > On Apr 25, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > > +1 > > There are also some neat-o features I added in my notes during ACNA to > stick into the balancer manager, too... I plan to get around to them i

Re: Balancer manager

2015-04-25 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
+1 There are also some neat-o features I added in my notes during ACNA to stick into the balancer manager, too... I plan to get around to them in days. -- Daniel Ruggeri On 4/24/2015 7:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Right now, the balancer manager allows for a member to be > disabled/s

Balancer manager

2015-04-24 Thread Jim Jagielski
Right now, the balancer manager allows for a member to be disabled/stopped, but it cannot *remove* that member... Seems to me that that would be good, especially since we could always re-use that slot. Comments?

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 recon

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

2012-11-01 Thread John M
this capability?). But for now, you're right, I can do what I need to do with Curl or some other client. Thanks, John M On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2012, at 3:12 PM, John M wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a new feature r

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 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

2012-10-31 Thread Graham Leggett
On 30 Oct 2012, at 9:12 PM, John M 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 use c

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

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-11 Thread Eric Covener
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Does the following address the issue? > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1383490&view=rev Looks like it, desk-checked only. Thanks!

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
Does the following address the issue? http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1383490&view=rev On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Eric Covener wrote: >> But the call to apr_uuid_get() is still done, even if the person >> used the nonce attribute. Thats what I suggested fixing... > > +1 > > -- > Eric

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-08 Thread Eric Covener
> But the call to apr_uuid_get() is still done, even if the person > used the nonce attribute. Thats what I suggested fixing... +1 -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
ke a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> >> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the >> balancer-manager nonce in affected environments. > > Doesn't it only call apr_uuid_get() during creation of the balancer worker? > So IMHO it should be only a problem during start

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
ategic" solution. >>> >>> On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: >>> >>>> On Friday 31 August 2012, Eric Covener wrote: >>>>> I'm fighting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some >>>>> environment

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-05 Thread Rainer Jung
On 31.08.2012 15:45, Eric Covener wrote: I'm fighting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too quick. I'd like a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the bal

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Laurie
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Tony Stevenson wrote: > > On 5 Sep 2012, at 11:57, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> FWIW, I have time this week to impl this... >> >> Feedback/Concerns? > > Only the term 'nonce' - It has very unfortunate connotations from UK english. > [1] :-) Sadly, we lost that bat

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Laurie
n some >>>> environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too >>>> quick. >>>> >>>> I'd like a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> >>>> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the >>>> balancer-manager nonc

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-05 Thread Tony Stevenson
On 5 Sep 2012, at 11:57, Jim Jagielski wrote: > FWIW, I have time this week to impl this... > > Feedback/Concerns? Only the term 'nonce' - It has very unfortunate connotations from UK english. [1] :-) [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_(slang) Cheers, Tony -

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-05 Thread Jim Jagielski
hting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some >>> environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too >>> quick. >>> >>> I'd like a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> >>> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for t

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-01 Thread Ben Laurie
ug 31, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: >>> >>>> On Friday 31 August 2012, Eric Covener wrote: >>>>> I'm fighting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some >>>>> environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too >>

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
riday 31 August 2012, Eric Covener wrote: >>>> I'm fighting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some >>>> environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too >>>> quick. >>>> >>>> I'd like a way to suppress th

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-01 Thread Ben Laurie
s to run out of entropy way too >>> quick. >>> >>> I'd like a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> >>> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the >>> balancer-manager nonce in affected environments. >>> >>&g

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-09-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> >> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the >> balancer-manager nonce in affected environments. >> >> I was thinking a global "BalancerManager off" could be used for >> this and would also have the up

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-08-31 Thread Stefan Fritsch
mod_proxy_balancer used for the > balancer-manager nonce in affected environments. > > I was thinking a global "BalancerManager off" could be used for > this and would also have the upside of fixing the SetHandler > htaccess problem. > > Alternatives would be to find

Re: how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-08-31 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 8/31/2012 8:45 AM, Eric Covener wrote: > Alternatives would be to find a weaker source for the nonce, or allow > tto opt out / use a hard-coded one. +1... also, couldn't the nonce get in the way of rest-like calls to the balancer manager to disable/enable/modify members? -- Daniel Ruggeri

how to avoid balancer manager nonce?

2012-08-31 Thread Eric Covener
I'm fighting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too quick. I'd like a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the balancer-manager nonce in affected environ

Re: balancer-manager and XML

2011-11-30 Thread Jim Riggs
On Nov 30, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Jim Riggs wrote: > On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> The XML interface for the balancer manager has, admittedly, lagged >> behind... >> >> Anyone have cycles and/or talent to bring it up to snuff? If not,

Re: balancer-manager and XML

2011-11-30 Thread Jim Riggs
On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > The XML interface for the balancer manager has, admittedly, lagged > behind... > > Anyone have cycles and/or talent to bring it up to snuff? If not, > I'll try to muddle thru it ;) As I mentioned to Jim at ApacheCon, I

balancer-manager and XML

2011-11-30 Thread Jim Jagielski
The XML interface for the balancer manager has, admittedly, lagged behind... Anyone have cycles and/or talent to bring it up to snuff? If not, I'll try to muddle thru it ;)

Re: Some love for balancer manager?

2010-12-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Dec 22, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> Part of the love is working on making dynamic addition/subtraction >> of balancer members a reality. My hope is to have that done in >> time for the beta. >> > > Would that include support

Re: Some love for balancer manager?

2010-12-24 Thread Rich Bowen
On Dec 22, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: During Rich's ApacheCon presentation he mentioned that some much needed love for the balancer manager was on its way... is anyone working on this currently? I'm not seeing anything in the released alphas and would be happy to b

Re: Some love for balancer manager?

2010-12-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Part of the love is working on making dynamic addition/subtraction > of balancer members a reality. My hope is to have that done in > time for the beta. > Would that include support for adding new vhosts/balancers at graceful restart and not

Re: Some love for balancer manager?

2010-12-22 Thread Jim Jagielski
gt; for the balancer manager was on its way... is anyone working on this > currently? I'm not seeing anything in the released alphas and would be happy > to be a guinea pig to do some testing/give thoughts. > > -- > -- > Daniel Ruggeri >

Some love for balancer manager?

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
During Rich's ApacheCon presentation he mentioned that some much needed love for the balancer manager was on its way... is anyone working on this currently? I'm not seeing anything in the released alphas and would be happy to be a guinea pig to do some testing/give thoughts. --

Re: balancer-manager and server-status feature request.

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Mladen Turk wrote: > Regarding xml data, it is my long standing wish to create > log output filter sub module system where the log lines would > go trough a VFS filter capable of writing to xml, database, etc > (depending on the VFS implementation). > *grin* I'd be

Re: balancer-manager and server-status feature request.

2009-11-16 Thread Mladen Turk
On 16/11/09 11:33, Mark Watts wrote: The statistics one gets from both /balancer-manager and mod_status are useful but of course only exist until httpd is restarted. It would be nice if they could be configured to periodically write some lines to the error log (at LogLevel info or so) with

balancer-manager and server-status feature request.

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Watts
The statistics one gets from both /balancer-manager and mod_status are useful but of course only exist until httpd is restarted. It would be nice if they could be configured to periodically write some lines to the error log (at LogLevel info or so) with these statistics so the data can be

Re: Feature Request for balancer-manager

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Mark Watts wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:49 +0100, Mark Watts wrote: I hope this is the right place to ask... Would it be possible to add the (real) hostname of the server serving a /balancer-manager URI? Reason being, if you have a pair of load-balancers in HA

Re: Feature Request for balancer-manager

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Watts
ed the > request, which I assume is what you wish to do. > Nothing quite so compilicated: Eg: (** is my addition) Load Balancer Manager for 192.168.1.100 Server Version: Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 Apache ** Server H

Re: Feature Request for balancer-manager

2009-10-21 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
e this is the right place to ask... >> >> Would it be possible to add the (real) hostname of the server serving >> a /balancer-manager URI? >> Reason being, if you have a pair of load-balancers in HA fail-over, it >> tells you which server you're looking at. >&

Re: Feature Request for balancer-manager

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Watts
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:49 +0100, Mark Watts wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask... > > Would it be possible to add the (real) hostname of the server serving > a /balancer-manager URI? > Reason being, if you have a pair of load-balancers in HA fail-over, it > tell

Feature Request for balancer-manager

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Watts
I hope this is the right place to ask... Would it be possible to add the (real) hostname of the server serving a /balancer-manager URI? Reason being, if you have a pair of load-balancers in HA fail-over, it tells you which server you're looking at. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE

Re: Balancer-manager, nonce, and xml

2009-08-12 Thread Ruediger Pluem
value of nonce. > This is rather a pain as well. > > Basically, I gave up on having a "real" HTTP health check mechanism within > apache and was going to use the balancer manager stuff to enable/disable > origins. > The xml output did not receive the love recently it

Balancer-manager, nonce, and xml

2009-08-12 Thread Akins, Brian
TP health check mechanism within apache and was going to use the balancer manager stuff to enable/disable origins. -- Brian Akins Chief Operations Engineer Turner Digital Media Technologies

Re: Balancer manager: bug and feature request

2006-07-24 Thread Jean-frederic Clere
ian platform, changes I make to the configuration within balancer-manager will periodically reset -- and it's faster under load. I can see the code where the config is being set, but I don't quite know whether this is process-local or not. If so, this would explain the symptoms. The proble

Balancer manager: bug and feature request

2006-07-24 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
That is, "bug" and "feature request", not "bug and feature" request. As I reported in http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39907 I'm finding that with the worker MPM and a pristine httpd 2.2.2 on an i386 Debian platform, changes I make to the co