Any worker agent monitors for appliance based load balancers?

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Published on 2009-08-13T19:16:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 2:03 UTC
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Looking to find out to what extent an appliance load balancer can monitor servers for both failover (say for example a service like apache tomcat fails) and load balancing?

Right now it looks like it's just port monitoring/connection tracking and healthcheck urls that it will heartbeat and detect as down if it doesn't come back with a finished request.

We are looking at the Kemp 3500 or Loadbalancer.org solutions.

Is there any sort of web application level monitoring/load balancing that these load balancers can offer that can more directly interact with the servers it's balancing?

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