[olug] get web server host name

[Mr Scsi]

its the classic case of not trusting what the IT guys say.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 10 April 2008 21:17:23 Mr Scsi wrote:
> > No, not resolve dns.
> >
> > My bad for not being clearer.
> >
> > What I have is a group of servers some at site 'A', some at site 'B'
> some
> > at site 'C' with a weighted load balancer system, (IBM Edge, these are
> > websphere boxes)
> >
> > The team that owns the applications running on them want a light diag
> > script to get (most likely via lwp) wwwXX.domain.com XXX number of
> times,
> > and count how many times each server responds.
> > If the clusting is working correctly, multiple hits should bounce about
> the
> > groups of servers. They want to count how many times site 'A' server 1
> > responds and site 'A' server 2 responds, etc....
>
> No back end stats from the load balancer?  Don't trust the stats from the
> load
> balancer?   Crossroads (1) gives us connections, errors and bytes
> transferred
> per server.  I'm not suggesting you rip out your IBM stuff, I'm just
> curious
> why they're working so hard to get info the load balancer may provide.
>
> (1)http://crossroads.e-tunity.com/
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