drain backend nodes ?

2009-03-26 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
We're currently using apache mod_proxy_balancer and cookies to make sessions sticky to backend hosts. Unfortunately mod_proxy_balancer doesn't seem to have any way of draining backend nodes. i.e. when we need to take one node out of service, we'd want to schedule that a few days in advanced.

Re: drain backend nodes ?

2009-03-26 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On 2009-03-26, Joseph Hardeman jharde...@colocube.com wrote: Yes it can, there is an haproxy.conf file which contains the hosts that you are proxying the traffic for. To remove a host, you would edit this file, put a # in front of the server(s) you want taken off line and then run the

Re: drain backend nodes ?

2009-03-26 Thread Joseph Hardeman
Very cool. Welcome to the community. :-) Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: On 2009-03-26, Joseph Hardeman jharde...@colocube.com wrote: Yes it can, there is an haproxy.conf file which contains the hosts that you are proxying the traffic for. To remove a host, you would edit this file, put a #