All, I am running a 3 node proxy front end to a 3 node application back end. All proxy nodes have the same configuration to distribute load:
+---------------------+ | Firewall Public | +---------------------+ +-------------------------------------------+ | +------+ +-------+ +-------+ | | |HTTPD| |HTTPD| |HTTPD| | | | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | | +------+ +-------+ +-------+ | +-------------------------------------------+ +----------------------+ | Firewall Private | +----------------------+ +---------------------------------------------+ | +--------+ +---------+ +--------+ | | |Tomcat | | Tomcat | |Tomcat| | | | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | | +--------+ +---------+ +--------+ | +---------------------------------------------+ My httpd version is (running on RHEL 7.5): Apache/2.4.27 (Red Hat) I am using mod_proxy_balancer with balancer-manager and am looking for a way to automate administration of balancer-manager on all 3 nodes (drain nodes, disable/enable nodes, etc). In searching, I have found a couple options: https://gist.github.com/SeonghoonKim/5385982 https://code.google.com/archive/p/apache-cluster-manager Can anyone offer thoughts/guidance on what they are doing or have done in the past to accomplish automating the administration of balancer-manager with multiple nodes? Thanks in advance, HB