>Let me know if I'm "getting it." ;) Yes, and thanks a ton for sticking with this thread...
>I think the problem boils down to your HW LB device being smart enough. >I am guessing you have layer 4 monitoring on your servers, aka, "If I >can ping it, it's alive." That's not usually good enough. Use layer 7 >monitoring, make a test CF page that says "ok" or something. Your load >balancer should check this page and match it to "ok" locally to see if >it's getting what it expected within an acceptable time limit. Yes, precisely, I've got a CF page that sets and displays some text that the load balancer reads. If it's dead (after a few tries) it yanks the machine out of the farm until the test becomes successful again. However... >Miss a pull or 3 and it's down. >Traffic then is rerouted to your other server. Here's the part (I'm either confused about or) that doesn't work: How does the load balancer know which machine is hanging, considering Machine A could be serving up a hanging *remote* application (from Machine B) at the time of the hang? If that happened a few times in row, wouldn't the load balancer pull the wrong machine out of farm? The above paragraph kinda sums up the problem (or just my confusion). Can you set me straight? Is there something wrong with my perspective? (I might be completely misunderstanding how these clusters work.) >If that's not it, or not an option... then I guess I don't understand. >haha. care to keep trying? Absolutely! I'm more desperate than I sound. :-/ Thanks again, Jamie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209604 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
