Scott,

Thanks for this info. Could you tell me what TicketRegistry provider do you
use to replicate the tickets? We will be using JBOSS Cache on a four-node
Tomcat cluster. Do you use synchronous multicast or async?  I appreciate all
other pointers that you can share for clustering.

Thanks,
Rolly
University of Phoenix

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Scott Battaglia
<[email protected]>wrote:

> We terminate SSL at our Cisco ACE and we have no issues with TGTs.
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Azhar K Mustapha <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> If I am not mistaken CAS is using a secure cookie called CASTGC to enable
>> Single Sign On by tracing CAS login. If you tried to load SSL to LB and
>> redirect http to the application server, I am afraid the Single Sign On
>> might be affected.
>>
>> A cheaper way is to buy one SSL certificate which hostname is the VIP, and
>> put the certificate in all the four servers, At the LB, redirect all https
>> request the four servers. Of course, if you tried to access the server
>> directly with https, you will get certificate invalid because you are using
>> the VIP certificate.
>>
>> Thank you
>> azhar
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Adam Rybicki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It's really your call.  If Netscaler can handle SSL in hardware, it
>>> would be able to offload the CAS servers from encryption processing.
>>> The beauty of this approach is that you only have one certificate and
>>> one host that has to match the name in the certificate.
>>>
>>> Since CAS cluster commonly does not rely on sticky sessions, your VIP
>>> does not have to look at the payload, so it could also just pass through
>>> encrypted traffic.  Each CAS cluster node would then have to have a copy
>>> of a certificate with the same name, and you'd have to make sure that
>>> each node accepts the name in the certificate.  This would require
>>> playing some DNS or /etc/hosts tricks because the end users must accept
>>> that your VIP is the CAS host.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> Rolly Ferolino wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > We are in the process of implementing CAS in a four-node cluster
>>> > behind a Netscaler VIP. What is the best practice for hosting the SSL
>>> > certificate? Do we host it on VIP or the servers? If the VIP is
>>> > accepting request on port 443, do we forward that request to CAS
>>> > server port 8443 (SSL) or to port 80 or 8080 (non-SSL)?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
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>>> > University of Phoenix
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