How can I remove balanced node from haproxy via command line?

Solution 1:

Update (28 Aug 2012): I now tend to use haproxyctl nowadays, which utilizes the methods described below.

I've fixed it after a little more research, for anyone else with the same issue:-

You can add a unix socket in your config, then interact with that (here are the possible commands).

To set up:

sudo nano /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

In your 'global' section add in:

stats socket /etc/haproxy/haproxysock level admin

Restart your haproxy daemon (e.g. sudo service haproxy restart)

Now you need socat (if you don't have it, just apt-get install socat on Ubuntu).

Now all you need to do is fire off this command to take down a node:

echo "disable server yourbackendname/yourservername" | socat stdio /etc/haproxy/haproxysock

To bring it back up replace disable with enable in the command above.

Solution 2:

In addition to beardwizzle's echo method, you can also do this interactively:

root@ny-lb01:/etc/haproxy# sudo socat readline /var/run/haproxy.stat 

prompt
> set timeout cli 1d
> disable server foo/web01
> help
Unknown command. Please enter one of the following commands only :
  clear counters : clear max statistics counters (add 'all' for all counters)
  clear table    : remove an entry from a table
  help           : this message
  prompt         : toggle interactive mode with prompt
  quit           : disconnect
  show info      : report information about the running process
  show stat      : report counters for each proxy and server
  show errors    : report last request and response errors for each proxy
  show sess [id] : report the list of current sessions or dump this session
  show table [id]: report table usage stats or dump this table's contents
  get weight     : report a server's current weight
  set weight     : change a server's weight
  set timeout    : change a timeout setting
  disable server : set a server in maintenance mode
  enable server  : re-enable a server that was previously in maintenance mode

Solution 3:

On the off chance that you only have access to netcat (nc) you can use it to interact with HAProxy's socket file in a similar fashion to socat.

$ echo "show info" | nc -U /var/lib/haproxy/stats | head -10
Name: HAProxy
Version: 1.5.2
Release_date: 2014/07/12
Nbproc: 1
Process_num: 1
Pid: 29745
Uptime: 0d 0h14m35s
Uptime_sec: 875
Memmax_MB: 0
Ulimit-n: 8034

To disable a server:

$ echo "enable server bk_dservers/ds02" | nc -U /var/lib/haproxy/stats

Take care to make sure that the socket file has the appropriate level of access to perform the above. Mainly something like this:

stats       socket /var/lib/haproxy/stats level admin

Otherwise you'll get permission denied errors:

$ echo "disable server bk_dservers/ds02" | nc -U /var/lib/haproxy/stats
Permission denied

$

References

• HAProxy stats from the command line