pen load balancer [PSARC/2008/339 FastTrack timeout 05/29/2008]

[Darren J Moffat]

Jia Ni wrote:
>> My understanding from the above reference is that the pen program 
>> itself does NOT read the /etc/pen.cf file by default (it does take -f 
>> argument).   In this case I highly recommend that the pen 
>> configuration be via SMF properties able to be set per instance of 
>> svc:/network/pen/ or at least that there is a per instance property 
>> for specifying the config file location.
> Sorry. I am not quite understand the meaning of "specifying config file 
> location"?
> Usually, smf instance don't take any arguments and it's config file is 
> fixed somewhere. Do you mean I should set the each instance of pen 
> config file in a separate place? Eg, "pen.http.conf" for http, 
> "pen.ftp.conf" for ftp ...?

Two choices either use SMF properties for all of the configuration 
options of pen - this is the idea case.  Or create a smaller set of SMF 
properties including one that gives the location of a pen.cf file, the 
method script would use that property to find pen.cf instead of being 
hardcoded to /etc/pen.cf as it would in the original spec.

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Darren J Moffat