Vmware llc (20250126168). END-USER MONITORING IN DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
END-USER MONITORING IN DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
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Jingchun Jason Jiang of Beijing CN
END-USER MONITORING IN DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250126168 titled 'END-USER MONITORING IN DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
Original Abstract Submitted
some embodiments of the invention provide a method of performing end-user monitoring. at a health monitor that executes on a first host computer along with a client machine and a load balancer, to monitor health of a set of two or more servers that are candidate servers for processing packets from the client machine, the method exchanges health monitoring messages with each server in the set of servers to assess health of the servers in the set. at the health monitor, the method provides health data expressing health of the servers to the load balancer to use in determining how to distribute packets from the client machine between the servers in the set of servers.