Testing load-balanced web app

Hello Everybody,

I need to test load balanced web applications on regular basis to make
sure the application is in running condition on both servers. This is
kind of smoke test which just checks whether the home page renders on
each servers. Currently I have to log into the server use WLBS stop
command to take the server out and then load the website with common
url, then put the server back using WLBS start. same thing is required
to be done on the other server.
I was wondering if there is any easy way to achieve this.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanking you in advance.

Mahesh

Mm... in the past I have a page - say nlbcheck.asp.
From time to time, I query this page which returns the server details and
check if I'm getting response from each of the node.


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<maheshvd DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Everybody,
>
> I need to test load balanced web applications on regular basis to make
> sure the application is in running condition on both servers. This is
> kind of smoke test which just checks whether the home page renders on
> each servers. Currently I have to log into the server use WLBS stop
> command to take the server out and then load the website with common
> url, then put the server back using WLBS start. same thing is required
> to be done on the other server.
> I was wondering if there is any easy way to achieve this.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanking you in advance.
>
> Mahesh
>