load balancing % available

[B.R.]

As per the docs, I do not see a mean of doing what you wish directly in an
upstream block.
That cut-off might be a feature request you could post on their bug tracker.

In the meanwhile, you might parse data about servers from an upstream group
on a status page you would have configured.
However, the status module is only part of the commercial version of nginx,
not the FOSS one. Have a look:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_status_module.html#status_zone

That is the best answer I could provide you with. Maybe someone else could
help you further?
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*B. R.*

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:24 AM, benson9 <nginx-forum at forum.nginx.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm not yet an Nginx user, but have a question on it's capacbility.
>
> I've had a look at the http load balancer, but cannot see anything that
> would allow me to set the % or number of servers in an upstream backend
> group that should be available before an error response is returned.
>
> The scenario I am looking into is one where Nginx can manage load balancing
> across servers in a tier and there are multiple tiers. If less than 50%
> servers are available in any tier I would like to respond with a HTTP
> failure and the hardware load balancer can then route traffic to a standby
> data centre.
>
> If the status page returns information about all the servers in the group
> in
> each tier then perhaps some orchestrating check called by the hardware load
> balancer could detemine whether the site is considered available?
>
> Is an orchestrating check available in Nginx and can % available be set?
>
> I look forward to any responses.
>
> Thanks
> Benson
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,266143,266143#msg-266143
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