Re: [users@httpd] Programmatic access to balancer manager

2020-09-25 Thread Niranjan Rao
Thank you Jim, I think this might be overdue need. Time permitting, I'll try to create a small write up within next couple of weeks based on my experience. Will you be ok to use it as your starting point? Problem with documenting in the API format is it does get locked up as soon as you

Re: [users@httpd] Programmatic access to balancer manager

2020-09-25 Thread Jim Jagielski
All the balancer manager does is create HTTP requests to the Apache web server, so you can easier use the shell and curl for example to automate a lot of stuff. It is true that a formal API isn't documented (I should get on that... it *is* long overdue) but it is easy to determine it via

Re: [users@httpd] Programmatic access to balancer manager

2020-09-24 Thread Nick Folino
Changes made in balancer-manager do not require a restart to take effect. You might try Python/Beautiful Soup for programmatic access. Nick On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:11 PM Niranjan Rao wrote: > Greetings, > > > On Apache 2.4.18, Ubuntu. > > I am looking for a way to access balancer manager

[users@httpd] Programmatic access to balancer manager

2020-09-24 Thread Niranjan Rao
Greetings, On Apache 2.4.18, Ubuntu. I am looking for a way to access balancer manager programmatically. I tried searching around, but could not find any officially documented API or interfaces. We are a small organization hosted in AWS. Sometimes we have a need to add/remove a load