This document outlines how to create your own load balancing server agent to use in conjunction with the resource based (adaptive) Virtual Service (VS) scheduling method, which is one of the VS Scheduling Method choices in the VS Standard Options. This document focuses primarily on the requirements for creating and configuring such agents on arbitrary server operating systems (for example, the protocol used by the agent to communicate load values to the LoadMaster), and less on the mechanics of generating a load value using specific Operating System (OS) utilities. Nevertheless, this document presents simple examples of implementing and deploying a server agent on both a Windows and Linux system.

In the remainder of this document, the resource based (adaptive) scheduling method is referred to simply as adaptive scheduling.