Load Balancing Digest » lbwiki updates http://lbdigest.com Server Load Balancing Articles and News Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:16:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Load Balancing Troubleshooting Tools http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/24/load-balancing-troubleshooting-tools/ http://lbdigest.com/2008/06/24/load-balancing-troubleshooting-tools/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:54 +0000 tony http://lbdigest.com/?p=157 Every skillset has it’s tools.  These are the basics of the vocation, and it’s tough to do your job without them.  I have my own for load balancing, and they’re not what people typically expect.  I’ve mentioned the somewhat unorthodox troubleshooting tools that I use on here before, and now I’ve taken the step of codifying them into a Wiki page.

LBWiki: Troubleshooting Tools

Telnet, OpenSSL, and an HTTP analyzer.  Probably 90% of all the issues I come up against can be solved using those.   Probably 60% of all the problems can be solved by just telnet (used to test Layer 4 and sometimes through Layer 7).

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I’ve been working on this for a while (over a year, actually), and for a while I’ve been a little frustrated by my progress.  However, I realized I was making a critical mistake: I was waiting to release it until I was finished with it.  Wikis are really never finished, so if I kept with that brilliant strategy, the site would never be released.  So I’ve changed tactics:  I’m releasing it now, in all of it’s incomplete glory.

I give you, the load balancing wiki project:  lbwiki.com

Highlights from the inaugural release:

As new sections of lbwiki.com get added, they will likely be announced here, so keep an eye out.

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