Discovery of HAProxy Community edition load balancers is performed by SSH.

Note: Starting with Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns 1.15.0 version, pattern-based discovery is the default method for discovering HAProxy load balancers.

HAProxy is an open-source load balancer that can manage any TCP service. It is particularly suited for HTTP load balancing because it supports session persistence and Layer 7 processing. Discovery supports HAProxy for HTTP load balancing. TCP load-balancing is not supported.

Consider the following requirements for discovering the HAProxy:
  • The HAProxy software is installed and running on a Linux server.
  • The MID Server is deployed to explore the server and the MID Server has access to the server HAProxy configuration file.
  • The configuration probe checks for the haproxy.cfg file using one of the following methods:
    • Using the f parameter for the HAProxy process output.
    • Using the default /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg path.
  • The HAProxy probes require credentials and execute privileges to run commands.

Discovery uses the Unix - Active Processes probe to identify an HAProxy load balancer when the name of the process is haproxy. If this criterion matches, a record is created in the HAProxy Load Balancers [cmdb_ci_lb_haproxy] table if one does not already exist for that running process.

The following probes are triggered after classification:
Table 1. HAProxy probes
Probe Description Commands
HAProxy – Version The sensor of this probe populates the HAProxy version in the HAProxy Load Balancers [cmdb_ci_lb_haproxy] table. haproxy
HAProxy – Get Configuration The sensor of this probe populates additional information in the HAProxy Load Balancers [cmdb_ci_lb_haproxy] table. The probe also populates information in the Load Balancer Service [cmdb_ci_lb_service], Load Balancer Pool [cmdb_ci_lb_pool], Load Balancer Pool Member [cmdb_ci_lb_pool_member], Load Balancer Interface [cmdb_ci_lb_interface], and Load Balancer Application [cmdb_ci_lb_appl] tables. echo, sed, cut, grep, egrep (within the Borne shell script)

In addition to populating the data, the following relationships records are created in CI Relationships [cmdb_rel_ci] table:

  • The records in the cmdb_ci_lb_appl table run on the cmdb_ci_web_server table records.
  • The records in the cmdb_ci_lb_service table use the cmdb_ci_lb_pool table records.
  • The records in the cmdb_ci_pool table are used by the cmdb_ci_service table records.
  • The records in the cmdb_ci_pool table are members of the cmdb_ci_pool_member table records.
  • The records in the cmdb_ci_pool_member table are members of the cmdb_ci_pool table records.