Time service load-balancing

Hi,
I have a question about load-balancing facilities for Time service. If I
schedule a TimeScheduleDef object to run at certain intervals, does the
run-time environment take care of load balancing it across multiple machines
on a cluster?
Thanks,
Deepak

WebLogic Time is not a clustered service -- it is configured per server and
load balancing is performed.
Thanks,
Michael
Michael Girdley
Product Manager, WebLogic Server & Express
BEA Systems Inc
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Hi,
I have a question about load-balancing facilities for Time service. If I
schedule a TimeScheduleDef object to run at certain intervals, does the
run-time environment take care of load balancing it across multiplemachines
on a cluster?
Thanks,
Deepak

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Privileges     Read/Write
Type     boolean
Default Value     true
Edited by: mneelapu on Oct 12, 2009 11:16 AM

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The other confusing thing I have seen is that VPN config guide for VPN load balancing mentions configuring separate IP address pools on the VPN devices, so that clients on ASA1 do not have IP address overlap with clients on ASA2. When you configure ip address pool on active ASA1, this gets replicated to standby ASA2. In other words, you cannot have two unique IP address pools on a ASA Active/Standby cluster. I guess I could draw addresses from external DHCP server, and then do some kind of routing. Perhaps this will work?
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Now I'm wondering if the ASA could actually handle a single addr pool in an active-standby fo rig- *if* the code supported the exchange of addr pool status between the fo members (so they each would know what addrs have been farmed out from this single pool)? Can I get some feedback from folks on this? If this is viable, then I suppose we could submit a feature request to Cisco... not that this would necessarily be supported anytime soon, but it might be worth a try. And I'm also assuming we might need a vip on the inside int as well (not just on the outside), to properly flip the traffic on both sides if the failover occurs (note we're not currently doing this).
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