Loadbalancer Server Methods

API methods for adding and removing servers to/from Load Balancers.

loadbalancer.server.add()

Add the given server to the service. If the server is a miniserver, this method may reboot it in order to reconfigure its network. For further information, please see the VLAN documentation.

Parameters:
  • load_balancer (String) – The name of the load balancer. Service names are 1-64 characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, . and _. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • service_name (String) – The name of the load balancer service. Service names must only consist of letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • server_name (String) – Name of the server.
  • ip_address (String, Optional) – The IP address that the load balancer should forward incoming connections to. Defaults to choosing one of the server’s VLAN IP addresses.
  • port (Integer, Optional) – The port number that the load balancer should forward incoming connections to. Defaults to the service’s port. Ensure this value is greater than or equal to 1. Ensure this value is less than or equal to 65535.
  • enabled (Boolean, Optional) – Whether this server is enabled. Defaults to false.
  • fallback (Boolean, Optional) – Whether this server is a fallback server. Defaults to false.
  • weight (Integer, Optional) – Weight used for some scheduling algorithms. Defaults to 10.
Returns:

A dictionary as described in loadbalancer.server.info().

Raises :

Will raise:

  • ApiErrorDoesNotExist if one of the cluster, cluster service or server with the provided name does not exist, or if no IP address is specified and a default IP address cannot be found.
  • ApiErrorBadParameters if the given IP address does not belong to the given server.
  • ApiErrorPreconditionFailed if one of the following preconditions is not satisfied.
Preconditions :

The following preconditions must be satisfied:

  • The server must be in the same VLAN as the load balancer.
  • The server must not be in the middle of a reboot operation.
  • The server’s SLA must not be lower than the load balancer’s SLA.
  • The server must not already be attached to this service.
loadbalancer.server.info()

Return information about the specified server, as attached to the given service.

Parameters:
  • load_balancer (String) – The name of the load balancer. Service names are 1-64 characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, . and _. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • service_name (String) – The name of the load balancer service. Service names must only consist of letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • server_name (String) – Name of the server.
Returns:

a dictionary with the following keys:

name:

String: The name of the server.

ip_address:

String: The IP address of the server. This is the address that the load balancer will forward incoming connections to

port:

Integer: The port to which the load balancer will forward incoming connections.

enabled:

Boolean: Whether this server is enabled. If the server is not enabled, it won’t be used to handle requests.

fallback:

Boolean: If true, this server is only used as a fallback. The server won’t be used if there are any non-fallback servers available (enabled and responding to connections.

weight:

Integer: Weight used for load balancing. Higher numbers mean more connections will come to this server.

Raises :

Will raise ApiErrorDoesNotExist if the load balancer, service or server does not exist. Will raise ApiErrorPreconditionFailed if the server is not attached to the given service.

loadbalancer.server.remove()

Remove a server from the given service. The server must not be in the middle of rebooting. If the server is a miniserver, this method may reboot it in order to reconfigure its network. For further information, please see the VLAN documentation. If you just want to disable a server temporarily, use loadbalancer.server.update() to set enabled to false.

Parameters:
  • load_balancer (String) – The name of the load balancer. Service names are 1-64 characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, . and _. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • service_name (String) – The name of the load balancer service. Service names must only consist of letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • server_name (String) – Name of the server.
Returns:

The name of the server that was removed.

Raises :

Will raise ApiErrorDoesNotExist if the named load balancer, service or server does not exist. Will raise ApiErrorPreconditionFailed if the server is not attached to the specified service, or if the server is being rebooted.

loadbalancer.server.update()

Update the settings of a server as attached to the given service. Settings that are not provided will not be updated.

Parameters:
  • load_balancer (String) – The name of the load balancer. Service names are 1-64 characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, . and _. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • service_name (String) – The name of the load balancer service. Service names must only consist of letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. Ensure this value has at most 64 characters.
  • server_name (String) – Name of the server.
  • ip_address (String, Optional) – The IP address that the load balancer should forward incoming connections to.
  • port (Integer, Optional) – The port number that the load balancer should forward incoming connections to. Ensure this value is greater than or equal to 1. Ensure this value is less than or equal to 65535.
  • enabled (Boolean, Optional) – Whether this server is enabled.
  • fallback (Boolean, Optional) – Whether this server is a fallback server.
  • weight (Integer, Optional) – Weight used for some scheduling algorithms.
Returns:

A dictionary as described in loadbalancer.server.info().

Raises :

Will raise:

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