Adding a load balancer health monitor using Horizon
In this recipe, you will learn how to create a heath monitor for the load balancer that monitors the health of the applications that are running on the member servers.
Getting ready
To create a health monitor for our load balancer, we will need the following information:
The type of monitor
The time interval between consecutive health check request sent by the monitor
The amount of time to wait for a reply from the application
The number of times the monitor will try to get a reply from the application
How to do it…
The following steps will show you how to add a heath monitor for the load balancer:
Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials.
In the left navigation menu, navigate to Project | Network | Load Balancers.
Select the Monitors tab and click on Add New Monitor.
In the monitor screen, add the monitor Type. For our example, we will use HTTP as the monitor type.
In the Delay field, provide the time interval between consecutive health...
