Len, Do you have a the "nofailover" parameter disabled ? this can help users continue served by the working tomcat instances in-case of the tomcat instance which cookie parameter set fails / not available.
<Proxy balancer://abc> BalancerMember ajp://prod1:8081 route=app1 BalancerMember ajp://prod2:8081 route=app2 BalancerMember ajp://prod3:8081 route=app3 ProxySet stickysession=JSESSIONID ProxySet nofailover=Off </Proxy> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Len Takeuchi <ltakeu...@jostleme.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I have apache load balancing a number of tomcat instances using mod_jk > using sticky session. This is all working with the session id having > the jvmRoute appended. I am storing the session using persistent > manager using jdbc. I want to have failover for session as supported by > JvmRouteBinderValve. Is this possible to set up in an environment where > multicast is not supported? Do I need to set up a Cluster though I > don't need session replication since I'm using persistent manager for > session storage so all tomcat instances have access to session data? > What I want is just the JvmRouteBinderValve behavior of changing the > session id to the new jvmRoute and setting cookie when a tomcat instance > receives a session request from a different jvmRoute. > > Regards, > Len >