Load-balancer-info syntax

[Rob Ross <ro...@thinksmartinc.com>]

I have a large RDS environment and in a few cases we have multiple session
hosts setup as a farm that will load balance connections. This works just
fine. However if I want to do maintenance to a specific server within the
farm I am unable to do that because even though I have the IP address of
the machine in Guacamole the connection broker still load balances the
connection and I end up on any of the servers in the collection (farm).
After much research I have come up with the following. Using the proper
syntax I can force the load balancer to allow me to connect to a single
specific host in the farm. I then found that guacamole has support for this
information in the “load-balancer-info” in the connection screen. The
problem is I have not been able to find the correct syntax to add to that
field in guacamole.

Can anyone shine some light on this?

Thanks in advance.

Rob
-- 
Thanks,

Re: Load-balancer-info syntax

[Rob Ross <ro...@thinksmartinc.com>]

Thanks for the response nick.  the information given states to
use </load-balance-info:tsv://{resource name}> i am not sure if guacamole
wants :tsv: or just tsv: and the resource name inside the .rdp file is the
name of the collection which contains all the servers in the farm so it
still randomly connects to whatever one the connection broker tells it to.
Almost never the correct server I want.  I also tried replacing resource
name with the IP address of the server and that produced the same result.

thanks,
Rob

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 9:24 AM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 1:43 AM Rob Ross <ro...@thinksmartinc.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a large RDS environment and in a few cases we have multiple
>> session hosts setup as a farm that will load balance connections. This
>> works just fine. However if I want to do maintenance to a specific server
>> within the farm I am unable to do that because even though I have the IP
>> address of the machine in Guacamole the connection broker still load
>> balances the connection and I end up on any of the servers in the
>> collection (farm). After much research I have come up with the following.
>> Using the proper syntax I can force the load balancer to allow me to
>> connect to a single specific host in the farm. I then found that guacamole
>> has support for this information in the “load-balancer-info” in the
>> connection screen. The problem is I have not been able to find the correct
>> syntax to add to that field in guacamole.
>>
>> Can anyone shine some light on this?
>>
>>
> Might check out this page:
>
> https://serverfault.com/questions/779712/how-do-i-connect-to-a-virtual-desktop-windows-server-2012-r2-with-a-linux-clie
>
> The syntax should be the same as the xfreerdp command line syntax.
>
> -Nick
>


-- 
Thanks,

Re: Load-balancer-info syntax

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 1:43 AM Rob Ross <ro...@thinksmartinc.com> wrote:

> I have a large RDS environment and in a few cases we have multiple session
> hosts setup as a farm that will load balance connections. This works just
> fine. However if I want to do maintenance to a specific server within the
> farm I am unable to do that because even though I have the IP address of
> the machine in Guacamole the connection broker still load balances the
> connection and I end up on any of the servers in the collection (farm).
> After much research I have come up with the following. Using the proper
> syntax I can force the load balancer to allow me to connect to a single
> specific host in the farm. I then found that guacamole has support for this
> information in the “load-balancer-info” in the connection screen. The
> problem is I have not been able to find the correct syntax to add to that
> field in guacamole.
>
> Can anyone shine some light on this?
>
>
Might check out this page:
https://serverfault.com/questions/779712/how-do-i-connect-to-a-virtual-desktop-windows-server-2012-r2-with-a-linux-clie

The syntax should be the same as the xfreerdp command line syntax.

-Nick