SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY AND CONFIGURATION OF RESOURCE SERVERS IN A TRAFFIC DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Described herein are systems and methods for use with a load balancer or traffic director, and administration thereof, wherein the traffic director is provided as a software-based load balancer that can be used to deliver a fast, reliable, scalable, and secure platform for load-balancing Internet and other traffic to back-end origin servers, such as web servers, application servers, or other resource servers. In accordance with an embodiment the system comprises a traffic director having one or more traffic director instances, which is configured to receive and communicate requests, from clients, to origin servers having one or more pools of servers. Systems and methods are described for providing active-passive routing, surge protection and rate acceleration, dynamic discovery of origin servers, flexibility in configuring http load balancing, and/or dynamic cache data decompression in such a traffic director or other environment.