We use a Cisco switch device for the load balancer. On Cisco it is called sticky mode as well.
________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mid-Tier, load balancing or clustering with shared disks ** We have on veritas.. they key is setting sticky IP's as having the MT server behind a load balancer without configuring them for sticky IP's sends the clients to different servers all the time thus they loose the session they initiated the login with.. so what happens is when a user tries logging in, after authentication the request goes back to the user from another server, and does not recognize the session ID that it goes back with.. thus it fails at the authentication stage itself most of the times and gets through randomly when it goes back to the same server the request for authentication went in through.. The setup for sticky IP's was done by our hardware/networking team so I do not really have details on that.. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Howard Richter Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mid-Tier, load balancing or clustering with shared disks ** We tried to get it to work with an F5 load balancer, but never could. I would be curious if anyone has gotten Mid-Tier to work in a load balanced environment. Howard Richter On 6/7/07, Tony Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: All - I'm wondering if anyone out there has attempted to cluster or load balance (using MS or Linux) Mid-Tier and RKM using shared disks (SAN) for RKM content. I'm also interested in anyone who has attempted to use the clustering capabilities of Jboss or Tomcat in a Mid-Tier & RKM environment. Contact me off list, if you wish. Thanks, Tony -- Tony Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] 262-703-5911 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This is a transmission from Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. and may contain information which is confidential and proprietary. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution or use of the contents of this message is expressly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please destroy it and notify us immediately at 262-703-7000. CAUTION: Internet and e-mail communications are Kohl's property and Kohl's reserves the right to retrieve and read any message created, sent and received. Kohl's reserves the right to monitor messages to or from authorized Kohl's Associates at any time without any further consent. -- Howard Richter Remedy ServiceDesk Manager Red Hat Certified Technician CompTIA Linux+ Certified CedarCrestone Managed Services Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
