Cluster creation help!

Question

Hi there
Does any one have a fool-proof document for creating and proving a 2 server ColdFusion 10 cluster? Most of the documents I have found are missing something. 
More specifically, what is the difference between HTTP Port and Admin Component Port in the remote instance manager?
Should the Cluster Manager show anything on the remote node?
Is there a cluster monitor that show's its state? Is the there a simple test to prove it works.
If this is in the remote node server.xml
<Engine jvmRoute="cfusion" name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
should the jvmRoute value in the Instance Manager should be set to cfusion?
Thanks for your help
Richard

Answer 1

Vishu
Thank you for your fast reply. I'm still having problems though. :-(
Both are Enterprise servers and both are on the same subnet.
I have created 2 new instances called cluster1 and cluster2, one on each server. Both show HTTP Port 8501 and Remote Port 8103.
On cluster1 server, I add in a New Remote Instance:
Instance Name: cluster2
Remote IP/Name - servername of second server
Remote Port: 8103
HTTP Port: 8501
JVMRoute - In the server.xml in the cluster2 instance, the line is
<Engine jvmRoute="cluster2" name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost"> so I have entered "cluster2" for jvmroute
Load Balance Factor:1
Admin Component Port: 8500 - the port for the main instance (the 'cfusion' instance")
Admin Username and Passwords: My administrator details.
The remote instance does then appear in the list.
I have added the cluster code in the to cluster2 runtime/conf/server.xml file after the </host> tag.
I have commented out the ManagerPath in context.xml.
On the first server I created a cluster and added the local cluster1 and the cluster2_remoteserver name to the server. I restarted both servers
In the coldfusion-out.log in the cluster2 and cluster1 logs I get
Cluster1
22-Aug-2013 10:54:43 org.apache.catalina.tribes.util.UUIDGenerator <clinit>
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for UUID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [5,002] milliseconds.
22-Aug-2013 10:54:43 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl setupSocket
INFO: Setting cluster mcast soTimeout to 500
22-Aug-2013 10:54:43 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Sleeping for 1000 milliseconds to establish cluster membership, start level:4
22-Aug-2013 10:54:44 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Done sleeping, membership established, start level:4
22-Aug-2013 10:54:45 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Sleeping for 1000 milliseconds to establish cluster membership, start level:8
22-Aug-2013 10:54:46 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Done sleeping, membership established, start level:8
INFO: Starting clustering manager at localhost#/
22-Aug-2013 10:55:15 org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager getAllClusterSessions
INFO: Manager [localhost#/]: skipping state transfer. No members active in cluster group.
22-Aug-2013 10:55:15 org.apache.catalina.ha.session.JvmRouteBinderValve startInternal
Cluster2
22-Aug-2013 10:14:44 org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster startInternal
INFO: Cluster is about to start
22-Aug-2013 10:14:44 org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.ReceiverBase bind
INFO: Receiver Server Socket bound to:/xxxxxxxxxxx:4003
22-Aug-2013 10:14:49 org.apache.catalina.tribes.util.UUIDGenerator <clinit>
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for UUID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [5,002] milliseconds.
22-Aug-2013 10:14:49 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl setupSocket
INFO: Setting cluster mcast soTimeout to 500
22-Aug-2013 10:14:49 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Sleeping for 1000 milliseconds to establish cluster membership, start level:4
22-Aug-2013 10:14:50 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Done sleeping, membership established, start level:4
22-Aug-2013 10:14:50 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Sleeping for 1000 milliseconds to establish cluster membership, start level:8
22-Aug-2013 10:14:51 org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastServiceImpl waitForMembers
INFO: Done sleeping, membership established, start level:8
INFO: Starting clustering manager at localhost#/
22-Aug-2013 10:15:19 org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager getAllClusterSessions
INFO: Manager [localhost#/]: skipping state transfer. No members active in cluster group.
22-Aug-2013 10:15:19 org.apache.catalina.ha.session.JvmRouteBinderValve startInternal
Any ideas on what might being going wrong?
Thanks
Richard