Proxy Maintenance Process

[Alan DeKok]

Brian Carpio wrote:
> Currently we are using freeradiusd to proxy / load balance requests to
> our backend radius application. However as I’m sure many of you
> encounter there are times which require maintenance / upgrades of the
> backend servers, what is the “best practice” in regards to putting
> home_servers into maintenance so that freeradiusd doesn’t attempt to
> send traffic to them?

  Use "radmin"

radmin> set home server state IP PORT dead

> I’m not sure if there is a simple command we can run? Or is the only
> option to comment out the home_server from the home_server_pool and then
> kill -1 to the radiusd process?

  Nope.  Mark it dead.  When it comes back up, the server will figure
that out (if Status-Server is enabled)

  Alan DeKok.