HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Optionally, a load balancer expert can customize the packaged Operations Orchestration workflows
or develop new OO workflows for additional types of load balancers and add them to the OO
repository. An administrator can then configure one or more of these load balancers and add them
to the inventory (described in “Registering a load balancer” (page 54)).
With customized Operations Orchestration workflows, Matrix infrastructure orchestration supports:
• software and hardware based load balancers
• full-featured and baseline load balancers
• single and multi-use load balancers
Operations Orchestration workflow implementations for the HAProxy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic
Manager load balancers are provided with infrastructure orchestration in /Library/
Hewlett-Packard/Infrastructure orchestration/Load Balancers/[LB Model]/
[LB Version]/. A mock (sample) load balancer is also provided.
Registering a load balancer
After a load balancer is installed on the CMS, an IO administrator registers the load balancer in
IO. The load balancer is not automatically discovered. To register the load balancer, which adds
it to the infrastructure orchestration inventory, you can use:
• The infrastructure orchestration SOAP API
• The ioexec command line interface (a client using the SOAP API)
Following are the ioexec register load balancer commands.
Table 1 ioexec register load balancer commands
Descriptionioexec command
Gets a list of load balancer resourceslist loadbalancers
Adds a load balancer to the IO inventoryadd loadbalancer
Modifies the definition of a load balancer in the IO inventorymodify loadbalancer
Removes a load balancer from the IO inventoryremove loadbalancer
Adds a certificate for a load balanceraddcert loadbalancer
Removes a certificate for a load balancerremovecert loadbalancer
Sets the password for a load balancersetpassword loadbalancer
Unsets the password for a load balancerunsetpassword loadbalancer
Registering a load balancer into the IO inventory requires associating management credentials
with it. When adding or modifying a load balancer, the administrator must define a password ID
54 Installation and configuration