Patent ID: 9686158
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for operating a load balancer comprising: generating, at the load balancer, a list of IP addresses identified as point to node clients and a corresponding list of target environments in a multi-tiered environment, wherein the target environments are virtual containers within a first application server of a server farm, wherein the list of point to node clients and the corresponding list of target environments provide override to the normal load balancing production routing; receiving, at the load balancer, a request from a client to access content from the server farm within the multi-tiered environment; determining, by the load balancer, whether the request originated from a point to node client by comparing an IP address associated with the client with the list of IP addresses identified as the point to node clients; determining, by the load balancer, whether the request is a request to access content from a virtual container in the list of target environments based on a context root of the request; wherein the virtual container is not accepting traffic from normal load balancing production routing, wherein the first application server continues to accept the traffic from the normal load balancing production routing to virtual containers within the first application server other than the virtual container that is not accepting the traffic from the normal load balancing production routing: routing, by the load balancer, the request to a virtual container within the first application server other than the virtual container that is not accepting the traffic when the context root of the request is the request to access content from the virtual container and when the client has been determined not to be the point to node client; and routing, by the load balancer, the request to the virtual container within the first application server when the client has been determined to be the point to node client and when the context root of the request is directed to the virtual container.