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@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ -SLB NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-03-25 +SLB NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-04-26 Copyright (C) 2011 Sergey Poznyakoff See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send SLB bug reports to <gray+slb@gnu.org.ua> -Version 1.0 (git) +Version 1.0, 2011-04-26 + +First release. ========================================================================= @@ -4,12 +4,25 @@ See the end of file for copying conditions. * Introduction +This file contains brief information about configuring and installing +SLB. It is *not* intended as a replacement for the documentation, and +is provided as a brief reference only. The complete documentation for +Mailfromd is available in doc/ subdirectory in both manpage and +texinfo formats. The latter is authoritative. To read it without +installing the package run `info -f doc/slb.info'. After the package +is installed the documentation can be accessed via `info slb'. + +An online copy of the documentation in various formats is available +at http://slb.man.gnu.org.ua. + +* Overview + SLB stands for "Simple Load Balancer". The utility monitors a set of remote servers, obtaining a set of numeric values via SNMP. These values are used to compute a single floating-point number, -called a "weight" for that server. The servers are then sorted -in order of increasing weights and output (using a preconfigured -format string) to a file or pipe. +called a "relative load" for that server. The servers are then sorted +in order of increasing loads and the resulting table is printed (using +a configurable format string) to a file or pipe. * Prerequisites |