Ever since I posted a question regarding load balancing on this list several
months ago, I've had a sales guy from Coyote Point breathing down my neck.
All in all, the units seem reasonably priced for what they offer, but I'd be
very interested in hearing if there's a solution to this problem. You say
you've been in touch with Coyoted point in regard to decifering the logs...
but have you asked them if there's any way to configure the cluster so that
the web servers 'see' the originating IP address? Is their support _that_
bad? Are the logs on the load balancer intended to be analyzed for traffic
reporting instead of your actual web server logs?
I'm curious how you'll do the logging at the web servers so that you can
analyze the logs. Would you log to a central ODBC datasource or would you
merge the logs from all of your web servers before running them through an
analyzer?
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Wisdom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 9:26 PM
Subject: Load balancing causes loss of referrer info in logs
> Hey Everyone,
>
> We are using a Coyote Point Equalizer for load balancing our cf
> servers(without clustercats). Typical of a hardware load balancer, it
> answers an IP and redirects to a particular server in a cluster based on
the
> algorithm that we have selected. Unfortunately, by the point that it
reaches
> the individual cf servers, it has become the referrer, and so our logs
from
> the cf servers are useless for this kind of data.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to deal with this? Is this a problem with
> Local Director, or any of the hardware load balancers? We can get the logs
> off of the Equalizer, but it is proprietary format from their software (it
> is a free-BSD machine) and the manufacturers have been very unhelpful
about
> extracting the information from the logs.
>
> Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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