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 looking at the balancer_handler function in https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_balancer.c?view=markup or by looking at the HTML of the balancer manager page. > On Sep 24, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Nick Folino <n...@folino.us> wrote: > > 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 <nhr...@gmail.com > <mailto:nhr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > 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 balancer worker in/from traffic as per current > conditions and to save the costs. We are trying to automate these > actions to avoid mistakes and control these processes via tools/scripts. > > > We have scripts that can spawn or stop AWS instances and now I'm looking > for extending those scripts add/remove members as per need. > > > I came across few curl scripts, but wanted to check if there is any > official programmatic access to balancer manager to add a member. > > > Also it's not clear if I tinker with worker members using manager gui > like documented at > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass > <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass>, do I > need to reload the server again or changes will be automatically applied. > > > Regards, > > > Niranjan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > <mailto:users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > <mailto:users-h...@httpd.apache.org> >
