Generic Application Kit for Load Balancer Health Checks

Overview

The Generic ARK for Load Balancer probe reply (Gen LB) provides a mechanism to receive and respond to a health check probe for load balancer target instances of load balancer instances in Microsoft Azure (Azure).

This document explains how the Gen LB scripts work. Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation for for more information.

It is important to note that this recovery kit may only be used in the supported cloud environments (Microsoft Azure). There is no guarantee that the recovery kit will function correctly in unsupported environments.

Prerequisites

• The scripts included with the Gen LB ARK may only be used with LifeKeeper for Windows v8.7.2 and later.

• For the supported OS and configurations, refer to the Release Notes and the LifeKeeper for Windows Support Matrix. Please see the installation steps of the online documentation.

• Microsoft Azure is the only supported cloud platform for the Gen LB ARK.

• The Gen LB ARK only supports use of the TCP protocol for health check probes.