Hi Vince,
Tom has captured details of load-balancer config correctly in his mail.
However it is not that straight forward.
1. The configured device-port is SSL port of web server. However there
is no strict requirement for a load-balancer element to be present. A
lbconfig is sufficient to generate load-balancer xml. The load-balancer
element is required if administrator wants to push load-balancer xml
over the wire to web server. This feature is available for Oracle
iPlanet Web Server and Apache, but not available for IIS.
2. Also after deploy, changes are not automatically propagated to
load-balancer plugin deployed on web server. You will have to run
apply-http-lb-changes command to propagate those changes to
load-balancer plugin and then probably need to wait(governed by property
lb-configs.lb-config.<config-name>.reload-poll-interval-in-seconds) till
these changes are picked up.
3. A cluster or standalone instances may be fronted by many load-balancers.
Though I like your idea about end to end testing, there are still some
gaps which does not allow coverage for all cases.
Thanks,
Kshitiz
Sun, an Oracle Company.
On 18/07/11 7:19 PM, Tom Mueller wrote:
>
>
> On 7/17/2011 7:31 PM, vince kraemer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know how to 'get' the hostname and port for the instances that make
>> up a cluster... but I assume that at some point an admin will hide
>> all these details behind a load balancer.
>>
>> Once that happens, it doesn't make sense to have something like an
>> IDE dig out the name/port combinations. The IDE should run traffic
>> that it generates through the load balancer... so the app/config gets
>> tested end-to-end.
>>
>> What combination of get commands would I need to execute to determine:
>>
>> 1. that an LB is configured to 'handle' a particular cluster and/or
>> stand-alone instance?
> An lb-config element has a cluster-ref-or-server-ref list. So look in:
>
> lb-configs.lb-config.<lbcname>.cluster-ref-or-server-ref-list
>
> for the name of the cluster or standalone instance. Then use that
> <lbcname> to find a load-balancer that references it:
>
> load-balancers.load-balancer.<lbname>.lb-config-name=<lbcname>
>
> Then use the <lbname> to look up the host/port:
>
> load-balancers.load-balancer.<lbname>.device-host
> load-balancers.load-balancer.<lbname>.device-port
>
> Kshitiz can confirm of this is correct.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>>
>> 2. the hostname and port (and any other necessary info) so the IDE
>> can open the browser correctly when a user selects the Run item on a
>> project that is deployed onto a GF 3.1 cluster and/or instance?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> vbk
>>