>From the Mid-Tier side, you also might want to review your setttings as
described here to work with the load balancer settings:

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Configuring+the+mid+tier+connection+pool

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/brid91/en/configuring-the-mid-tier-connection-pool-610403150.html

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Aspari Sunil Kumar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> There isn't much can be done in mid tier.this is purely LB team need to
> analyse what is going wrong . Need to sit with them and see why all the
> connections are going to one server in reality with the help of logs.. we
> had strange problem recently that on 2 AR servers we used to see same set
> of users .. we fixed this after lot of analysis with LB team
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2018 7:09 PM, "LJ LongWing" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've always preferred to use least connections personally, but from what
> I've read of the docs they recommend round robin....but round robin doesn't
> explain how your LB would be putting everyone on one node...it should
> literally go 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 for new connections, and as you discussed,
> keep you on your current server if you are within the timeout, but you
> should have fairly even load across nodes....do they keep logs of the
> monitor activity so you can review if the monitor is reporting a server as
> down during specified periods?  What monitor style are you using, ping,
> tcpip port, something else?
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Thomas Miskiewicz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey LJ and thank you for the prompt reply.
>>
>> Talked to them already. We’re using round robin. I’m not an expert on LB
>> but my understanding was that we would have about an equal amount of users
>> on all AR Servers using it.
>>
>> The guy explained that once you connect there is a time out of 180
>> seconds. If you do something within the 180 seconds you will end up on the
>> same server. If you don’t they will balance. Sounds plausible. Any yet
>> what’s the likelihood that people then will be balanced on the second box
>> and not the third.
>>
>> Does anyone there use round robin as well? How do your users get
>> distributed? What are you Mid Tier settings, connection settings in
>> particular?
>>
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 4:49 PM, LJ LongWing <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thomas,
>> You'll need to work with the LB team to identify what distribution method
>> they are using....common options are 'round robin' in which it just simply
>> points everything at each server in turn, 'least connections' where it
>> tries to analyze how many are 'currently' connected to each node and send
>> the traffic to the one with the least current load....you'll also want to
>> check and verify that the monitor that you are using to determine if a node
>> is online or not is functioning properly because if the LB monitor says a
>> node is down, it obviously won't send any traffic to it...but if that
>> monitor is faulty, it might be up and running but not reporting as online
>> and can cause the scenario you described...
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Thomas Miskiewicz <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Listers,
>>>
>>> we got a physical load balancer before the Mid-Tier servers and a
>>> logical load balancer between the Mid Tier and our AR Servers.
>>>
>>> We noticed that on some days all the users land on only one AR Server.
>>> On other days two. What’s the reason behind it? What do we need to
>>> configure and to enforce equal distribution?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
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