(RADIATOR) %{Handler:name}

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Mariano -

I'm afraid I dont quite understand what you are wanting to do.

Could you give me a bit more detail?

thanks

Hugh


On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 07:26 AM, Mariano Absatz wrote:

> Hi Hugh, long time no see...
>
> I'm planning an installation with a bunch of front-end Radiator proxies
> (using <AuthBy LOADBALANCE>) to an(other) bunch of Radiator back-end 
> servers
> that do the actual authentication against SQL servers.
>
> Now, the front-end farm has the "dispatching" intelligence and the 
> back-end,
> the authentication intelligence...
>
> By "dispatching" I mean:
> "if it comes from such and such a NAS authenticate using of these 
> back-end
> servers"
> "if the realm matches xxx authenticate against these bunch of back-ends"
> etc...
>
> I'm trying to generalize as much as possible and want to have short and
> easily manteinable config files, so I'm doing a bunch of identfied 
> AuthBy's
> like this:
>
> <AuthBy LOADBALANCE>
> 	Identifier Kind01
>
> 	include %{GlobalVar:ConfigDir}/RetriesKind01.cfg
> 	include %{GlobalVar:ConfigDir}/HostsKind01.cfg
>
> 	AcctFailedLogFileName %L/ACCT-LOST/Kind01/%Y-%m-%d.log
> </AuthBy>
>
> This would be the AuthBy to use for the "Kind01" kind of handlers...
>
> Is there a way to have a "per AuthBy" special that has the "AuthBy"
> Identfier? That is... a kind of "%{LocalVar:xxxx}" where the locality 
> is wrt
> the AuthBy...
>
> Would %{Handler:Identifier} do that? or that would give me the 
> Identifier of
> the Handler that called this AuthBy?
>
> Otherwise, would something along the lines of this work?:
>
> <AuthBy LOADBALANCE>
> 	DefineFormattedGlobalVar KIND Kind01
> 	Identifier %{GlobalVar:KIND}
>
> 	include %{GlobalVar:ConfigDir}/Retries%{GlobalVar:KIND}.cfg
> 	include %{GlobalVar:ConfigDir}/Hosts%{GlobalVar:KIND}.cfg
>
> 	AcctFailedLogFileName %L/ACCT-LOST/%{GlobalVar:KIND}/%Y-%m-%d.log
> </AuthBy>
>
> <AuthBy LOADBALANCE>
> 	DefineFormattedGlobalVar KIND Kind02
> 	Identifier %{GlobalVar:KIND}
>
> 	include %{GlobalVar:ConfigDir}/Retries%{GlobalVar:KIND}.cfg
> 	include %{GlobalVar:ConfigDir}/Hosts%{GlobalVar:KIND}.cfg
>
> 	AcctFailedLogFileName %L/ACCT-LOST/%{GlobalVar:KIND}/%Y-%m-%d.log
> </AuthBy>
>
>
> TIA.
>
>
> --
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
> ----------------------------------------------------------
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>
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