8. Directly Accessing Load Balancers Through the API and Controlling Them via the Operation Management Functionality

You can control load balancers by using the application server's operation management functionality. This chapter describes how to configure a load balancer so that it can be directly accessed via the API. This chapter also describes the settings for using the operation management functionality to control a load balancer.

Organization of this chapter

8.1 Organization of this chapter

8.2 Directly accessing a load balancer through the API

8.3 Load balancer APIs executed using the operation management functionality

8.4 Load balancer access environment setup

8.5 Load balancer connection information setup with Management Server (Smart Composer functionality)

8.6 Load balancer connection information setup with Virtual Server Manager