Anyone have used Cisco SLB or F5 LB for load balancing?
-----Original Message----- From: b savage [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri 7/6/2012 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [cas-user] reverse proxy & load balancing behind Apache On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Frank Van Damme <[email protected]>wrote: > 2012/7/5 Philippe MARASSE <[email protected]>: > > Member ;-), > > > > As far as I remember, clustering is not so easy. I've set up a few years > ago > > a clustered CAS involving a few more steps : > > 1 - Clustering tomcat (on-line documentation at apache site is good > > enough) > > 2 - Make CAS redistributable in web.xml > > 3 - Share the tickets registries (JPATicketRegistry if I'm not > mistaken) > > 4 - Use sticky sessions in the balancer > > > > Rdgs > > It looks like mod_balancer does send the same client more or less to > the same backend. > So far I got session replication more or less working (the cas > clustering wiki page says nothing about authentication so I'm also > somewhat worried about session hijacking through the multicast > packages that Tomcat sends - after all, everyone can capture those > packages and it looks like any server can announce himself as a > cluster member). I found a slideshow presentation somewhere that says you don't > actually need session replication because it is only used for storing > the "webflow state", and recommands adding > repository-type="client" > to > <flow:executor id="flowExecutor" registry-ref="flowRegistry" > > ... unfortunately I can't test if that works because it is based on an > older Spring version and I can't find the equivalent in newer versions > - that is, if it hasn't just been made obsolete at all. > Good points. They are highlighted in the warning areas on the clustering page. Many thanks for the advice and pointers, > > -- > Frank Van Damme > No part of this copyright message may be reproduced, read or seen, > dead or alive or by any means, including but not limited to telepathy > without the benevolence of the author. > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
