Exporting the Load Balancer Configuration File

The load balancer plug-in shipped with Sun Java System Application Server uses a configuration file called loadbalancer.xml. Use the asadmin tool to create a load balancer configuration in the domain.xml file. After configuring the load balancing environment, export it to a file.

To export the load balancer configuration

1. Export a loadbalancer.xml file using the asadmin command export-http-lb-config.

   Export the loadbalancer.xml file for a particular load balancer configuration. You can specify a path and a different file name. If you don’t specify a file name, the file is named loadbalancer.xml. load_balancer_config_name. If you don’t specify a path, the file is created in the application_server_install_dir /domains/domain_name /generated directory.

   To specify a path on Windows, use quotes around the path. For example, "c:\sun\AppServer\loadbalancer.xml" .

2. Copy the exported load balancer configuration file to the web server’s configuration directory.

   For example, for the Sun Java System Web Server, that location might be web_server_root/config .

   The load balancer configuration file in the web server’s configuration directory must be named loadbalancer.xml. If your file has a different name, such as loadbalancer.xml. load_balancer_config_name, you must rename it.