Tarantella Administration Guide > Applications, documents and hosts > Host object

Host object

• Use a host object to represent an application server used with Tarantella.
• To create a host object use Object Manager or the tarantella object new_host command.

Attributes

• Name
• Description
• Address
• Windows NT Domain
• Available to run applications
• Authentication
• Location

Notes

• Host objects are used with application server load balancing. If you associate two or more host objects with one application object (by adding the host objects to the application object's Hosts tab), the Tarantella server will choose one of the host objects to use, based on the load across the application servers.
• You can group host objects together, for example by location or by platform, and load balance across all the application servers in the group by associating the group object with the application object.