Load balancer management in the CLI

Neutron offers a number of commands that can be used to create and manage virtual IPs, pools, pool members, and health monitors for load balancing purposes.

In version 1 of the LBaaS API, the pool is the root object to which all other load balancer resources are associated. The workflow to create a functional load balancer starts with creating a pool and then continues with creating and associating pool members, health monitors, and a virtual IP.

Managing pools in the CLI

The following commands are used to manage pools in the CLI:

• lb-pool-create

• lb-pool-delete

• lb-pool-list

• lb-pool-list-on-agent

• lb-pool-show

• lb-pool-stats

• lb-pool-update

Creating a pool

A pool is a set of devices, such as web servers, that are grouped together to receive and process traffic. When traffic is sent to a virtual IP, the load balancer sends a request to any of the servers that are members of this pool.

To create a pool, use the Neutron lb-pool-create command, as follows:

Usage:    lb-pool...