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On 2003-10-10T12:08:15,
"William V. Wollman" <wwollman@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> We have worked with LVS to implement something we call the Server Load
> Balancing Registration Protocol. It allows a server to plug into a
> network with the LVS and register it services with the LVS.
Cool! Is that based on the Service Location Protocol?
> The LVS is then automatically configured to balance the services
> registered. We did not modify LVS directly but created a Java program
> that processes the real server registration messages and then
> automatically configures the LVS. The real server requires the
> installation of a Java program to build the registration messages and
> register its services. One benefit is plug and play SLB with minimal
> administration. Another benefit is controlled configuration
> management.
Yes, that sounds good. Automatic discovery is certainly helpful. Though
I'd be a bit worried about a Java program, but that's because of my bad
experiences with their resource utilization ;-)
How do you handle security?
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>
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