Ronen,

Do you know if the session is replicating quickly enough? (I don't actually
know the best way to test this :-))

Cheers,
Scott

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ronen Itkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scott - Actually I enabled a 'sticky session' option on the load balancer
> - so as long as the session was not terminated by the cas server itself,
> it should be always redirected to the same as.
>
> by the way when the load balancer has only one cas server in service it
> works great!
> When I add another cas server to the load balancer, those issues arises.
> So is has to be something with the lb redirection - but what? :/
>
> Leszek - Thanks! I dont want to give up on load sharing (yet :)).
>
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>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Scott Battaglia <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Spring Web Flow doesn't allow you to round robin your CAS requests unless
>> you're using Tomcat session replication.  Spring Web Flow holds its
>> internal state in session (though you could write something that replaces
>> that).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Ronen Itkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have implemented two cas 3.4.12 servers with jdbc support and JPA
>>> ticket registration.
>>> It worked great until I added a load balancer that redirects traffic to
>>> one of the available cas servers (based on port availability  - round robin
>>> session redirection),
>>> Actually it is Amazon's web services load balancer, AKA Elastic Load
>>> Balancer.
>>> It listens to port 8443 and forwards it to the same port (8443) towards
>>> one on the available  cas servers.
>>> Cas login page appears and when I am trying to log in it just reloads
>>> the cas login screen again - without mentioning any problems, it repeats
>>> itself for a few login tries and after few attempts I get the following
>>> notification from my browser:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Authorization Required
>>>
>>> This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the
>>> document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad
>>> password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials
>>> required.
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server at x.x.x.x..x.x.compute-1.amazonaws.comPort 80
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>> *Cas.log  shows:*
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012-06-12 10:11:22,848 INFO
>>> [org.jasig.cas.CentralAuthenticationServiceImpl] - ServiceTicket [
>>> ST-1-SCiu0IAOcYwAcMd3ElRi-ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com]
>>> has expired.
>>> 2012-06-12 10:11:22,851 INFO
>>> [com.github.inspektr.audit.support.Slf4jLoggingAuditTrailManager] - Audit
>>> trail record BEGIN
>>> =============================================================
>>> *WHO: audit:unknown*
>>> WHAT:
>>> ST-1-SCiu0IAOcYwAcMd3ElRi-ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
>>> ACTION: SERVICE_TICKET_VALIDATE_FAILED
>>> APPLICATION: CAS
>>> WHEN: Tue Jun 12 10:11:22 UTC 2012
>>> CLIENT IP ADDRESS: 10.210.218.98
>>> SERVER IP ADDRESS: 10.211.173.168
>>> =============================================================
>>>
>>> So I guess it acts that way because it cant recognize the user that is
>>> attempting to login because normally is should write:
>>>
>>> WHO: [username: ronen]
>>>
>>> Does someone has an Idea of why it can happen while accessing Cas trough
>>> a load balancer?
>>> If I am accessing both cas servers directly and try to simply
>>> authenticate it works great!! only when accessing cas trough the load
>>> balancer it happens occasionally.
>>> (It does work sometimes - means that the ssl certificate of Cas's tomcat
>>> machine was successfully imported to the load balancer and basic
>>> configurations are fine)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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