Doug - Thanks for the repsonse - and I agree with everything you said. The question is how do we actually configure it that way so users don't have to choose it? The issue here is that we do not want the users to specify the preference server in the WUT. Consequently the server side configuration has to be used. The possible choices are: -User Defined (not our first choice) -Use This Server -Use Other Server If I understand what you're saying then the second option would be appropriate. This conflicts with what support has been telling us so far - but our regular dedicated support person is on vacation. William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. [email protected] Corporate Website, www.stratacominc.com <http://www.stratacominc.com/> Blog, www.williamrentfrow.com <http://www.williamrentfrow.com/> 715-410-8156 C
________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mueller, Doug Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Preference Server in a Server Group (7.5) ** William, I am confused by your description. You have 4 AR System servers pointing to one DB in a server group. These are then behind a load balancer. Is this your entire environment? If so, you really have ONE logical server. The load balancer. PERIOD. This is your server. This is your only server. This is the server you talk to from your client. So, your mid-tier has one server registered. So, your windows clients have one server registered. All access is to that one logical server -- ignore the fact that behind the scenes there are 4 servers. There is ONE logical server. That one server is your preference server. There is no need to hunt across servers. There is ONE server. If the load balancer routes to any of the four, you are accessing the same DB and get the same data. Don't confuse the fact that you have multiple servers doing the work make it seem like there are 4 servers. There is one logical server and if you put them all behind the load balancer, that one name of the load balancer level is the ONE and ONLY server for the environment (OK, not really as you could go direct as well, but if you go to the load balancer that is a single server instance -- logically -- regardless of whether it really goes to one or multiple physical servers. So, just configure your system to talk to the ONE server at the logical load balancer level and treat that as your server -- and your preference server. I hope this helps, Doug Mueller ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Preference Server in a Server Group (7.5) ** I have a server group with 4 AR Servers. None of the servers are directly routable to directly by the end users - they all access the servers through a virtual name which passes them to the load balancer and on down to the server group. We'd prefer users do not have to enter the preference server name. BMC has advised us to add the actual AR Server names to the WUT and set this in the ar.conf on each server. Preference-Server-Option: 2 In the non-secure world that would make the WUT search through the servers until it found the preference server that was defined. That won't work for us due to security reasons because users can not get to the AR Servers directly. Anyone know a way around this? William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. [email protected] Corporate Website, www.stratacominc.com <http://www.stratacominc.com/> Blog, www.williamrentfrow.com <http://www.williamrentfrow.com/> 715-410-8156 C _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
