System, method and configuration for dynamic discovery of resource servers in a traffic director environment

摘要

Systems and methods for use with load balancers or traffic directors and their management are described herein. The traffic director is provided as a software-based load balancer. The software-based load balancer provides a fast, reliable, scalable, and secure platform for load balancing the Internet and other traffic back-end origin servers such as web servers, application servers, or other resource servers. Can be used to deliver According to an embodiment, the system includes a traffic director having one or more traffic director instances and configured to receive and communicate requests from a client to a source server having one or more pools of servers. . The systems and methods can provide active-passive routing, surge protection and rate acceleration, dynamic discovery of origin servers, flexibility in configuring http load balancing, and / or in such traffic directors or other environments Described to provide dynamic cache data restoration.