This week I cover a couple ways to obtain information about a specific server in a web farm. How can you tell which node handled your page request? Often it’s valuable to know which node is currently being served for troubleshooting the load balancer or individual pages.

This is week 13 of a 52 week series on various web administration related tasks.

Today’s video walks through this HTTP Handler and how you can install it on your web farm. Just now I realized that I forgot to mention how to roll this out on a full web farm with multiple nodes (the target install situation).

The install won’t break anything, even if you install it while shared configuration is enabled. Simply run the quick install on each node of the web farm and it will install without any impact to the production environment.

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About Scott Forsyth

Senior Systems Engineer at ORCS Web, Inc (www.orcsweb.com) and co-founder of Vaasnet (www.vaasnet.com). Microsoft MVP for IIS. ASPInsider. Strengths are IIS, ASP.NET, DNS, Windows Server, and Hyper-V. This author has published 50 articles on DotNetSlackers. View other articles or the complete profile here.