haproxy service did not start automatically after running the script in the **create** mode

[KamranAzeem]

Accessing the cluster IP (10.240.0.2) for nginx service failed from my work computer:

[kamran@kworkhorse ~]$ curl http://10.240.0.2
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.240.0.2 port 80: Connection refused
[kamran@kworkhorse ~]$ 

Turned out that the haproxy service was not running. Whereas it should have been running!

[root@lb LoadBalancer-Files]# service haproxy status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  haproxy.service
● haproxy.service - HAProxy Load Balancer
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/haproxy.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Sep 19 14:00:13 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27151]: haproxy-systemd-wrapper: executing /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/hap...id -Ds
Sep 19 14:00:14 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27151]: [ALERT] 262/140013 (27158) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:20] : 'bi...s>:80'
Sep 19 14:00:14 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27151]: [ALERT] 262/140013 (27158) : Error(s) found in configuration file : /etc...xy.cfg
Sep 19 14:00:14 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27151]: [ALERT] 262/140014 (27158) : Fatal errors found in configuration.
Sep 19 14:00:14 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27151]: haproxy-systemd-wrapper: exit, haproxy RC=256
Sep 19 14:04:57 lb.example.com systemd[1]: Started HAProxy Load Balancer.
Sep 19 14:04:57 lb.example.com systemd[1]: Starting HAProxy Load Balancer...
Sep 19 14:04:57 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27252]: haproxy-systemd-wrapper: executing /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/hap...id -Ds
Sep 19 14:04:57 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27252]: [ALERT] 262/140457 (27254) : Starting proxy default-nginx-80: cannot bin....2:80]
Sep 19 14:04:57 lb.example.com haproxy-systemd-wrapper[27252]: haproxy-systemd-wrapper: exit, haproxy RC=256
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[root@lb LoadBalancer-Files]# 

Restarting the service, manually , worked!