The web server is the main interface of the Toolpack system. Toolpack uses 3rd party web server, Mongrel for Windows and Lighttpd for Linux/Solaris. The web server is manage by tboamapp through tboamappctrl.
It allows users to:
Query the status from the system.
Query/Modify the configuration stored in a MySQL database.
High Availability
There are no special mechanism between instances of the web server, they are both independent. When running Toolpack on 2 hosts, both web server instance can read, modify the configuration of the system. If an web server instance crash, it will be restarted by tboamapp.
