Tauf

Thanks, what is strange is our old 7.6.1 system was set up the same and we had 
no issue.

I will post what found.

Hbr

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On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Tauf Chowdhury <[email protected]> wrote:

> Howard,
> I've seen this with 7604 with load balancing. Basically, the LB
> doesn't care about the users. It simply looks at tcp port traffic from
> the mid tier to the AR. There is not a 1 to 1 correlation between user
> actions on mid tier and connections to AR. So if a user action spawns
> 4 TCP connections, each one will be distributed by the load balancer
> equally depending on how you set it, round robin or least connection
> etc.. That's probably why you see 1 user on both boxes. That's how I
> understand it. Hope that helps. I'd like to hear the resolution that
> BMC comes to as this directly effects pricing for the customer.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Howard's Gmail <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I hope this question finds you all in good health.
>> 
>> Now for my question/issue, we just went from 7.6.1 to 7.6.4 r3 and started 
>> to run out of floating licenses. With the user population staying the same.
>> 
>> So we (with the help of BMC support) started to look around. What we saw was 
>> strange, we have 3 mid-tiers tied to 2 app servers, through a load balancer 
>> with the sticky bit set. No we are using he new load balancer function in 
>> the 7.6.4 mid-tier. What we found was that users were being logged on to 
>> both app servers, therefor taking 2 licenses. One on each server.
>> 
>> After spending 7 hours on a web-ex with, BMC, the load balancer vendor and 
>> number of others, we are still some what lost. The leading item that might 
>> be the cause is the load balancer, but no one is sure why a user that is not 
>> an admin and has a floating license, can be logged into two arservers at the 
>> same time or what is pushing the user after they log in, then open a form 
>> (like change management console or the incident console) and then logging 
>> them into the other server.
>> 
>> BMC has been great looking at this issue with us, as well as the other 
>> vendors.
>> 
>> I just wanted to know if anyone else has seen anything like this since 
>> moving to 7.6.4.
>> 
>> Take care,
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
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