Load Balancing with Reverse Proxy Plug-in in SunOne 6.1

Question

Hello
we are configuring our reverse proxy web server SunOn 6.1 for load balancing and we have some conflicting information that we have found on the internet. The options we have found are the following:
1- In one case, it seems that all we need to do is add the destination servers to the servers parameter (quoted, space-delimited). We have read that the proxy server will simply round-robin requests.
2- In another case, we have seen that we have to use an loadbalancer.xml file with the server names and reference the file from both magnus.conf and obj.conf.
I have doubts about the second option because I really think this is configuration in 7.0 not 6.1.
Also, I also need to configure session stickiness but it is not clear how this works. There is an option for sticky cookies that defaults to JSESSIONID if not configured. Does this mean that I will have session stickiness but simply without the use of cookies?
ANY HELP? We need to solve this in the next day.

Answer 1

HI,
This may work for you.
obj.conf
<Object name="passthrough1">
Service fn="service-passthrough" servers="http://localhost:8080"
</Object>
<Object name="default">
AuthTrans fn="match-browser" browser="MSIE" ssl-unclean-shutdown="true"
NameTrans fn="assign-name" from="/idm(|/*)" name="passthrough1"
NameTrans fn="ntrans-j2ee" name="j2ee"
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/mc-icons" dir="D:/Sun/WebServer6.1/ns-icons" name="es-internal"
NameTrans fn="document-root" root="$docroot"
PathCheck fn="nt-uri-clean"
PathCheck fn="check-acl" acl="default"
PathCheck fn="find-pathinfo"
PathCheck fn="find-index" index-names="intro.htm,index.html,home.html,index.jsp"
ObjectType fn="type-by-extension"
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="text/plain"
Service method="(GET|HEAD)" type="magnus-internal/imagemap" fn="imagemap"
Service method="(GET|HEAD)" type="magnus-internal/directory" fn="index-common"
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST)" type="~magnus-internal/" fn="send-file"
Service method="TRACE" fn="service-trace"
Error fn="error-j2ee"
AddLog fn="flex-log" name="access"
</Object>
<Object name="j2ee">
Service fn="service-j2ee" method="*"
</Object>
<Object name="cgi">
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/cgi"
Service fn="send-cgi"
</Object>
<Object name="es-internal">
PathCheck fn="check-acl" acl="es-internal"
</Object>
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magnus.conf
# The NetsiteRoot, ServerName, and ServerID directives are DEPRECATED.
# They will not be supported in future releases of the Web Server.
NetsiteRoot D:/Sun/WebServer6.1
ServerName abc
ServerID https-www.abc.com
RqThrottle 128
DNS off
Security off
ExtraPath D:/Sun/WebServer6.1/bin/https/bin
Init fn=flex-init access="$accesslog" format.access="%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user% [%SYSDATE%] \"%Req->reqpb.clf-request%\" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status% %Req->srvhdrs.content-length%"
Init fn="load-modules" shlib="D:/Sun/WebServer6.1/bin/https/bin/j2eeplugin.dll" shlib_flags="(global|now)"
Init fn="load-modules" shlib="D:/Sun/WebServer6.1/plugins/passthrough/passthrough.dll"