Robert, Not to be a stickler [well, yes, I am being a stickler] but you ARE monitoring, whether you do it by virtue of hard-coding TCs to a SRS, running a ping script, running HP-OpenView, etc.
Your statement "So in the case of an outage when they get reports of a certain building or floor going down they will correlate those lost connections back to a server." implies to me that they will have to monitor lost connections in order to establish an idea of the outage. Perhaps it's just semantics but it seems to me to be six of one or half dozen of the other: either way, you're trying to get information about an outage. Anyways, that's how I see it. BTW: if you could disable LB, wouldn't you end up with ALL TCs being hard-coded to a specific SRS and I'm not sure if you want that either. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Robert Jaudon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 11:13 AM To: Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions) Cc: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [SunRay-Users] Question on Load Balancing The point is to NOT monitor for network outages. I just want to know if there was a way to make the DTU's stick to a server. Technically is it possible? Is changing the auth.props enableLoadBalancing to false a way to accomplish this? If so, what are the ramifications? -- Thank you, Robert Jaudon On 7/2/2010 12:01 PM, Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions) wrote: > Robert, > > How about instead of doing this a priori that it be done when there is an outage [ie if you suspect an outage, try at that time to connect a TC to a given SRS]. This will give the same info unless they are somehow planning on using the proposed setup as a continuous early warning system? > > It seems like they are substituting using the TC system for real network tools. Do they not have such tools or perhaps can't afford them? > > If so, why not come up with an alternative like a simple ping script that periodically checks each subnet? If the goal is to check for network outages, there are many ways of doing that besides using the SRS/TC. > > > Scott > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Jaudon > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:54 AM > To: Stuart > Cc: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [SunRay-Users] Question on Load Balancing > > The customer has touch screens attached to Sunray 2's and for troubleshooting purposes they would like to set specific DTU's up on specific servers and never have that change. So in the case of an outage when they get reports of a certain building or floor going down they will correlate those lost connections back to a server. > > > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
