## Description
Opsview LoadBalancer provided by HAProxy allows to distribute the load for high-load Opsview Components across a number of instances, some of which may be on different servers. It simplifies configuration changes and terminates SSL connections.
## Dependencies
The Opsview loadbalancer install the Opsview Watchdog package.
## Installation
Refer to [Advanced Automated Installation](🔗).
## Configuration
No post or pre-install configuration is required for running opsview-loadbalancer.
## Management
### Configuration
#### DPKGs
Watchdog service files are now managed by the package, doing a remove would leave the watchdog service file behind with a .save extension. Purging the package will remove it. The package managed config files are as follows
/opt/opsview/watchdog/etc/services/opsview-loadbalancer.conf
/opt/opsview/loadbalancer/etc/haproxy.cfg
#### RPMs
Watchdog service files are now managed by the package. Any modifications will be saved at upgrade and remove processes with the .rpmnew and .rpmsave extensions correspondingly.
/opt/opsview/watchdog/etc/services/opsview-loadbalancer.conf
/opt/opsview/loadbalancer/etc/haproxy.cfg
### Service Administration
As root, start, stop and restart the service using: