The Fewest Operations Load Balancing Algorithm is a load-balancing algorithm that forwards requests to the backend server with the fewest operations currently in progress. Note that this will only take into account requests coming from this Data Governance Server instance and will not consider operations which may be in progress on that server from other clients or Data Governance Server instances. It will also take the location and health of the servers into account when making the determination, so servers in remote locations and/or with poorer availability will be deprioritized relative to available servers in the same location as this Data Governance Server instance. This load-balancing algorithm should only be used when all backend servers are Directory Proxy Servers
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The Fewest Operations Load Balancing Algorithm component inherits from the Location Based Load Balancing Algorithm
The following components have a direct aggregation relation from Fewest Operations Load Balancing Algorithms:
The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:
| Description | A description for this Load Balancing Algorithm |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether this load-balancing algorithm is enabled for use in the server. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies the set of backend servers that will be available to process forwarded requests. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any LDAP External Server. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates that this Fewest Operations Load Balancing Algorithm should automatically discover the appropriate set of servers from the topology registry rather than using an explicitly specified list. The server instances to include must be configured with a "load-balancing-algorithm" property whose value matches the DN of this load-balancing algorithm. The details needed to connect to the server (including the address, port, and security mechanism), as well as information about its location, will be obtained from the server instance definition in the topology registry. The remainder of the settings for the connection will be obtained from the LDAP external server template specified in this property. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any LDAP External Server Template. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Indicates whether to take server locations into account when selecting servers to receive forwarded requests. If this is true, then the Data Governance Server instance and all of the associated LDAP external servers must be configured with a location, and this load-balancing algorithm will attempt to access only available servers in the same location as the Data Governance Server. If none are available then it will attempt to use available servers in the first preferred failover location (as defined in the location configuration), and then available servers in the second preferred failover location, etc. If this is false, then this load-balancing algorithm will consider all configured backend servers equal and will not take their locations into account when deciding how to forward requests. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
prefer-degraded-servers-over-failover
| Description | Indicates whether this load-balancing algorithm should prefer degraded servers in the same location over available servers in an alternate location. This property will be ignored if the value of the use-location property is false. |
| Default Value | false |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-allowed-local-response-time
| Description | The maximum length of time to wait for a response from a backend server in the same location as the Data Governance Server before considering it unavailable. |
| Default Value | 30 seconds |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-allowed-nonlocal-response-time
| Description | The maximum length of time to wait for a response from a backend server in a different location from the Data Governance Server before considering it unavailable. |
| Default Value | 30 seconds |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | The maximum number of times that an operation should be retried against an alternate server in the event that it does not complete within the specified time limit or fails with a result code that indicates it may succeed against an alternate server. |
| Default Value | 1 |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 0. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
initial-connections (Advanced Property)
| Description | The number of connections to initially establish to each LDAP external server associated with this load-balancing algorithm. A nonzero value will override the initial number of connections defined in the LDAP external server configuration for this load-balancing algorithm. A value of zero indicates that the configuration for each LDAP external server should be used to determine the initial number of connections for the server. Note that this will be ignored for servers configured to use a thread-local connection pool. |
| Default Value | 0 |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 0. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
max-connections (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum number of connections to maintain for each LDAP external server associated with this load-balancing algorithm. A nonzero value will override the maximum number of connections defined in the LDAP external server configuration for this load-balancing algorithm. A value of zero indicates that the configuration for each LDAP external server should be used to determine the maximum number of connections for the server. Note that this will be ignored for servers configured to use a thread-local connection pool. |
| Default Value | 0 |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 0. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
operation-to-retry (Advanced Property)
| Description | Specifies the types of operations that may be retried on an alternate server upon failing with a result code that indicates it may succeed against an alternate server. |
| Default Value | add bind compare delete extended modify modify-dn search |
| Allowed Values | add - The Data Governance Server should retry add operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. bind - The Data Governance Server should retry bind operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. compare - The Data Governance Server should retry compare operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. delete - The Data Governance Server should retry delete operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. extended - The Data Governance Server should retry extended operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. modify - The Data Governance Server should retry modify operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. modify-dn - The Data Governance Server should retry modify DN operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. search - The Data Governance Server should retry search operations if they fail with a result that indicates they might succeed on an alternate server. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-retryable-local-read-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a read operation which may be retried on an alternate server if the attempt fails. This property will be used for bind, compare, and search operations against servers in the same location as this Data Governance Server instance when retries are allowed for the specified operation type and there are one or more remaining servers that can be tried. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-local-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-non-retryable-local-read-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a read operation which may not be retried on an alternate server, either because retries have been disabled or because there are no more servers to be tried. This property will be used for bind, compare, and search operations against servers in the same location as this Data Governance Server instance. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-local-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-retryable-local-write-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a write operation which may be retried on an alternate server if the attempt fails. This property will be used for add, delete, modify, and modify DN operations against servers in the same location as this Data Governance Server instance when retries are allowed for the specified operation type and there are one or more remaining servers that can be tried. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-local-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-non-retryable-local-write-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a write operation which may not be retried on an alternate server, either because retries have been disabled or because there are no more servers to be tried. This property will be used for add, delete, modify, and modify DN operations against servers in the same location as this Data Governance Server instance. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-local-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-retryable-nonlocal-read-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a read operation which may be retried on an alternate server if the attempt fails. This property will be used for bind, compare, and search operations against servers in a different location from this Data Governance Server instance when retries are allowed for the specified operation type and there are one or more remaining servers that can be tried. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-nonlocal-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-non-retryable-nonlocal-read-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a read operation which may not be retried on an alternate server, either because retries have been disabled or because there are no more servers to be tried. This property will be used for bind, compare, and search operations against servers in a different location from this Data Governance Server instance. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-nonlocal-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-retryable-nonlocal-write-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a write operation which may be retried on an alternate server if the attempt fails. This property will be used for add, delete, modify, and modify DN operations against servers in a different location from this Data Governance Server instance when retries are allowed for the specified operation type and there are one or more remaining servers that can be tried. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-nonlocal-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
maximum-non-retryable-nonlocal-write-response-time (Advanced Property)
| Description | The maximum length of time to allow for the response to a write operation which may not be retried on an alternate server, either because retries have been disabled or because there are no more servers to be tried. This property will be used for add, delete, modify, and modify DN operations against servers in a different location from this Data Governance Server instance. If this is not specified, then the value of the maximum-allowed-nonlocal-response-time property will be used instead. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
balance-requests-across-servers-with-same-operation-count (Advanced Property)
| Description | Specifies the behavior that the load-balancing algorithm should exhibit if there are multiple servers with the fewest number of operations in progress. If this property has a value of "false", then the operation will be sent to the first server (in the order listed in the backend-server property) encountered with that number of outstanding operations, which will ensure that operations are consistently routed to the same backend server in such cases. If this property has a value of "true", then any of the servers with that fewest number of outstanding operations may be selected to process the operation. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
To list the configured Load Balancing Algorithms:
dsconfig list-load-balancing-algorithms
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To view the configuration for an existing Load Balancing Algorithm:
dsconfig get-load-balancing-algorithm-prop
--algorithm-name {name}
[--tab-delimited]
[--script-friendly]
[--property {propertyName}] ...
To update the configuration for an existing Load Balancing Algorithm:
dsconfig set-load-balancing-algorithm-prop
--algorithm-name {name}
(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
[(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...
To create a new Fewest Operations Load Balancing Algorithm:
dsconfig create-load-balancing-algorithm
--algorithm-name {name}
--type {type}
--set enabled:{propertyValue}
[--set {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...
To delete an existing Load Balancing Algorithm:
dsconfig delete-load-balancing-algorithm
--algorithm-name {name}