Starting an AdvisorThe Dispatcher component of Load Balancer uses advisors to gather information about the servers. Advisors analyze server data by protocol and pass these analyses to the manager. The manager then sets the weights used by the executor to optimize the current load-balancing strategy. Advisors are currently available for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSL, SMTP, NNTP, POP3, Telnet and many others, like the Caching Proxy. Custom advisors may also be written for any application to provide specific information that you need about servers. Note: Use of the advisors is optional, but recommended. |