Version of Load Balancer on Apps1ii

Hi All,
How to find the version of Load Balancer on Apps 11i Nodes ?
Thanks,

Hi
Check
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/high%20availability%20guide%20-%20sap%20xi%203.0.pdf
Also check sap web dispatcher
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/42/5cfd3b0e59774ee10000000a114084/content.htm
Thanks!

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ror.html" >
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Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 192.168.1.1
1 10.1.1.2 88 msec 60 msec 28 msec
2 20.1.1.2 104 msec 56 msec 120 msec
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modem autoconfigure type mica
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1. The guide, in section 3.2.10 (To configure Access Manager 1 with the Directory Server load balancer), talks about making changes at 4 places, and replacing the existing entry (hostname and port) with the load balancer's hostname and port (assuming that the load balancer has already been configured). It says that changes need not be made on Access Manager 2 since the LDAPs are in replication, and hence changes will be replicated at all places. However, the guide also states that changes have to be made in two files, namely AMConfig.properties, and the serverconfig.xml file. But these changes will not be reflected on Access Manager 2, since these files are local on each machine.
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[14/Aug/2006:04:31:48] warning (13937): CORE3283: stderr: Caused by: java.lang.InterruptedException
[14/Aug/2006:04:31:48] warning (13937): CORE3283: stderr: at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceManager.<clinit>(ServiceManager.java:74)
[14/Aug/2006:04:31:48] warning (13937): CORE3283: stderr: ... 2 more
In effect, AM on 1 did not start. On rolling back the changes, things again worked like previously.
Will be really grateful for any help / insight / experience on dealing with the above.
Thanks!

Update to the above, incase anyone is reading:
We setup a similar setup in Windows, and it worked. Here is a detailed account of what was done:
1. Host 1: Start installer, install automatically, chose Directory server, Directory Administration server, Directory Proxy server, Web server, Access Manager.
All installed, and worked fine. (AMConfig.properties, serverconfig.xml, and the info in LDAP service, all pointed to HOST1:389)
2. Host 2: Start installer, install automatically, chose Directory server, Directory Administration server, Directory Proxy server, Web server, Access Manager.
All installed, and worked fine. (AMConfig.properties, serverconfig.xml, and the info in LDAP service, all pointed to HOST2:389)
3. Host 1: Started replication. Set to Master
4. Host 2: Started replication. Set to Master
5. Host 1: Setup replication agreement to Host 2
6. Host 2: Setup replication agreement to Host 1
7. Initiated the remote replica from Host 1 ----> Host 2
Note that since default installation uses abc.....xyz as the encryption key, setting this to same was not an issue.
9. Started webserver for Host 1 and logged into AM as amadmin.
10. Added Host 2 FQDN in DNS Aliases / Realms
11. Added http://HOST2_FQDN:80 in the Platform server (instance) list.
12. Started Host 2 webserver. Logged in AM on Host 2, things worked fine.
At this stage, note the following:
a) Host 1:
AMConfig.properties file has
com.iplanet.am.directory.host=host1_FQDN
and
com.iplanet.am.directory.port=389
serverconfig.xml has:
<Server name="Server1" host="host1_FQDN" port="389" type="SIMPLE" />
b) Host 2:
AMConfig.properties file has
com.iplanet.am.directory.host=host2_FQDN
and
com.iplanet.am.directory.port=389
serverconfig.xml has:
<Server name="Server1" host="host2_FQDN" port="389" type="SIMPLE" />
c) If one logs into AM, and checks LDAP servers for LDAP / Policy Configuration / Membership etc services, they all contain Host2_FQDN:389 (which makes sense, since replica 2 was initialized from 1)
Returning back to the configuations:
13. On Host 1, login into the Admin server console of the Directory server. Navigate to the DPS, and confgure the following:
a) Network Group
b) LDAP servers
c) Load Balancing
d) Change Group
e) Action on-bind
f) Allow all actions (permit modification / deletion etc.).
g) any other configuations required - Am willing to give detailed steps if someone needs them to help me / themselves! :)
So now, we have DPS configured and running on Host1:489, and distributing load to DS1 and DS2 on a 50:50 basis.
14. Now, log into AM on Host 1, and instead of Host1_fqdn:389 (for DS) in the following places, specify Host1_fqdn:489 (for the DPS)--
LDAP Authentication
MSISDN server
Membership Service
Policy configuation.
Verified that this propagated to the Policy Configuration service and the LDAP authentication service that are already registered with the default organization.
15. Log out of AM. Following the documentation, modify directory.host and directory.port in AMConfig.properties to point to Host 1_FQDN and 489 respectively. Make this change in AMConfig.properties of both Host 1 as well as 2.
16. Edit serverconfig.xml on both hosts, and instead of they pointing to their local directory servers, point both to host1_FQDN:489
17. When you start the webserver, it will refuse to start. Will spew errors such as:
[https-host1_FQDN]: Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP5 B06/23/2005 17:36
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: CORE3016: daemon is running as super-user
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: CORE5076: Using [Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM, Version 1.5.0_04] from [Sun Microsystems Inc.]
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: WEB0100: Loading web module in virtual server [https-host1_FQDN] at [amserver]
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: WEB6100: locale-charset-info is deprecated, please use parameter-encoding
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: WEB0100: Loading web module in virtual server [https-host1_FQDN] at [ampassword]
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: WEB6100: locale-charset-info is deprecated, please use parameter-encoding
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: WEB0100: Loading web module in virtual server [https-host1_FQDN] at [amcommon]
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: WEB0100: Loading web module in virtual server [https-host1_FQDN] at [amconsole]
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: WEB6100: locale-charset-info is deprecated, please use parameter-encoding
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: WEB0100: Loading web module in virtual server [https-host1_FQDN] at [search]
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: netscape.ldap.LDAPException: error result (32); matchedDN = dc=sun,dc=com; No such object (DN changed)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: Got LDAPServiceException code=-1
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.services.ldap.DSConfigMgr.getConnection(DSConfigMgr.java:357)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.services.ldap.DSConfigMgr.getNewFailoverConnection(DSConfigMgr.java:314)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.services.ldap.DSConfigMgr.getNewConnection(DSConfigMgr.java:253)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.services.ldap.DSConfigMgr.getNewProxyConnection(DSConfigMgr.java:184)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.services.ldap.DSConfigMgr.getNewProxyConnection(DSConfigMgr.java:194)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ums.DataLayer.initLdapPool(DataLayer.java:1248)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ums.DataLayer.(DataLayer.java:190)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ums.DataLayer.getInstance(DataLayer.java:215)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ums.DataLayer.getInstance(DataLayer.java:246)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.sun.identity.sm.ldap.SMSLdapObject.initialize(SMSLdapObject.java:156)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.sun.identity.sm.ldap.SMSLdapObject.(SMSLdapObject.java:124)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.sun.identity.sm.SMSEntry.(SMSEntry.java:216)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.sun.identity.sm.ServiceSchemaManager.(ServiceSchemaManager.java:67)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.am.util.AMClientDetector.getServiceSchemaManager(AMClientDetector.java:219)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.am.util.AMClientDetector.(AMClientDetector.java:94)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.sun.mobile.filter.AMLController.init(AMLController.java:85)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:262)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:322)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:120)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3271)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3747)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:251)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:652)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:355)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.start(Embedded.java:995)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.start(WebContainer.java:431)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.startInstance(WebContainer.java:500)
[https-host1_FQDN]: warning: CORE3283: stderr: at com.iplanet.ias.server.J2EERunner.confPostInit(J2EERunner.java:161)
[https-host1_FQDN]: failure: WebModule[amserver]: WEB2783: Servlet /amserver threw load() exception
[https-host1_FQDN]: javax.servlet.ServletException: WEB2778: Servlet.init() for servlet LoginLogoutMapping threw exception
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:949)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:813)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3478)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3760)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:251)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:652)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:355)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.start(Embedded.java:995)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.start(WebContainer.java:431)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.startInstance(WebContainer.java:500)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.server.J2EERunner.confPostInit(J2EERunner.java:161)
[https-host1_FQDN]: ----- Root Cause -----
[https-host1_FQDN]: java.lang.NullPointerException
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.sun.identity.authentication.UI.LoginLogoutMapping.init(LoginLogoutMapping.java:71)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:921)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:813)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3478)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3760)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:251)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:652)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:355)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.start(Embedded.java:995)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.start(WebContainer.java:431)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.web.WebContainer.startInstance(WebContainer.java:500)
[https-host1_FQDN]: at com.iplanet.ias.server.J2EERunner.confPostInit(J2EERunner.java:161)
[https-host1_FQDN]:
[https-host1_FQDN]: info: HTTP3072: [LS ls1] http://host1_FQDN:58080 [i]ready to accept requests
[https-host1_FQDN]: startup: server started successfully
Success!
The server https-host1_FQDN has started up.
The server infact, didn't start up (nothing even listening on 58080).
However, if AMConfig.properties is left as it originally was, and only serverconfig.xml files were changed as mentioned above, web servers started fine, and things worked all okay. (Alright, except for some glitches when viewed in /amconsole. If /amserver/console is accessed, all is good. Can this mean that all is still not well? I am not sure).
So far so good. Now comes the sad part. When the same is done on Solaris 9, things dont work. You continue to get the above error, OR the following error, and the web server will refuse to start:
Differences in Solaris and Windows are as follows:
1. Windows hosts have 1 IP and hostname. Solaris hosts have 3 IPs and hostnames (for DS, DPS, and webserver).
No other difference from an architectural perspective.
Any help / insight on why the above is not working (and why the hell does the documentation seem so sketchy / insecure / incorrect).
Thanks a bunch!

Load Balancing Forms Services with an effective healthcheck

I am in the process of configuring two forms 11.1.2 servers running with weblogic 10.3.5 with multiple forms applications clustered across both physical servers. We are looking to load balance to the various forms applications using a hardware load balancer. Can anyone comment on their experience with setting up effective application healthchecks using either hardware or software load balancers?
For example say that we have 3 applications clustered across 2 servers with the following
URLs:
http://server01:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=myapp1
http://server01:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=myapp2
http://server01:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=myapp3
http://server02:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=myapp1
http://server02:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=myapp2
http://server02:7777/forms/frmservlet?config=myapp3
We would need a checking mechanism on the load balancer that could tell if myapp2 was down on say server01 and therefore block traffic to that application yet keep traffic open for the other 2 apps on the same server.
A specific difficulty with forms is that when the database behind the application is down forms services will return an error message within a displayed error form. From the load balancer's point of view the forms services are "up". We need to find a way of detecting that the application is actually available and not just that the forms services themselves are available. To detect that the forms services are available we might normally use the status check:
http://server01:7777/forms/frmservlet?ifcmd=status
however this will only tell use the availability of the forms services on a physical server and not whether any actual applications are available.
I am aware that f5 do a BIGIP offering that includes some Oracle Forms specific components. Can anyone comment on how they have setup Oracle Forms healthchecks using various load balancing methods. In particular if a load balancer is limited to using WGET commands to check HTTP returned content is there a way of checking a forms application's availability and if not how have other people achieved an effective healthcheck?
Many thanks,
Philippe

Did you ever Get this to work?
I am having some problems trying to load balance with Oracle Forms, Discover and reports Oracle Application Server Release 10g (9.0.4.0.2) and I was wondering if you could help. Has any one ever got this to work consistently? We are an ERP product written mostly in forms (904) and are trying to implement are largest customer there performance issue so we need the load balancing to work. Will also accept other recommendation as cost effective as solutions.
Site 1:
A: SERVER
     Host as1.xyzco.local
     Version 10.1.2.0.2
     Installation Type Identity Management and Metadata Repository
     Oracle Home E:\oracle\inf_1012
     Farm as1db.xyzco.net
o     HTTP_Server
o     Internet Directory
o     OC4J_SECURITY
o     Single Sign-On:orasso
o     Management
B SERVER
     Host as2. xyzco.local
     Version 9.0.4.0.2
     Installation Type Business Intelligence and Forms
     Oracle Home E:\oracle\mid_904
     Farm as2db. xyzco.net
o     Discoverer
o     Forms
o     home
o     HTTP_Server
o     OC4J_BI_Forms
o     Reports Server
o     Web Cache
o     Management
C SERVER
     Host as3. xyzco.local
     Version 9.0.4.0.2
     Installation Type Business Intelligence and Forms Discoverer and Reports
     Oracle Home E:\oracle\mid_904
     Farm as2db. xyzco.net
o      Discoverer
o     Forms
o     home
o     HTTP_Server
o     OC4J_BI_Forms
o     Reports Server
o     Web Cache
o     Management
All servers Are:
     Windows 2003 Standard Server with current service packs
     Xeon Dual Processor with 4GB ram
     Raid 0 drives 2 for OS and 2 for Oracle
Daniel Brody
[email protected]

Can't get sticky load balancing to work

I'm really puzzled why sticky LB is not working for a simple case I'm trying. I have two simple JSP's, both registered (see web.xml and ias-web.xml below). I'm using lite session and set distributable to false. Just in case someone can tell by just looking at my session id if it's supposed to be sticky or not, it looks like following -
GXLiteSessionID-4818869464307751325
My two JSP's are also attached below, and they're pretty simple. A new session is supposed to be created in login page and clicking on the logout page invalidates the session.
What I see is that each request (whether login or logout) is randomly sent to any server. For example, if I go to login once, further request to login or logout (whether through refresh or by clicking on the link) is not necessarily sent to the same server.
Any idea what's missing in my setup? I've tried different types of load balancing (round robin, etc.) so I know that's not it.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Jitu
-----web.xml-------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd'>
<web-app>
<display-name>WebDesk</display-name>
<distributable>false</distributable>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TestLogin.jsp</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>TestLogin.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TestLogin.jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>TestLogin.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TestLogout.jsp</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>TestLogout.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TestLogout.jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>TestLogout.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name></realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page></form-login-page>
<form-error-page></form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
</web-app>
-----ias-web.xml------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ias-web-app PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD iAS Web Application 1.0//EN' 'http://developer.iplanet.com/appserver/dtds/IASWebApp_1_0.dtd'>
<ias-web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TestLogin.jsp</servlet-name>
<guid>{A6D6B277-288D-1C22-C3CA-0800209A2F7C}</guid>
<servlet-info>
<sticky>true</sticky>
<sticky-lb>true</sticky-lb>
</servlet-info>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TestLogout.jsp</servlet-name>
<guid>{B88B7D19-28B9-1C22-EE63-0800209A2F7C}</guid>
<servlet-info>
<sticky>true</sticky>
<sticky-lb>true</sticky-lb>
</servlet-info>
</servlet>
<session-info>
<impl>lite</impl>
<timeout-type>last-access</timeout-type>
<timeout>60</timeout>
<secure>false</secure>
<domain></domain>
<path>/</path>
<scope></scope>
</session-info>
</ias-web-app>
-----TestLogin.jsp-------
<%
     java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
     HttpSession sess = request.getSession(true);
     System.out.println(date + ":TestLogin.jsp: sessionid = " + sess.getId() + ", new = " + sess.isNew());
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>TestLogin</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<p>
You are now logged in.<br>
<br>
TestLogin.jsp: sessionid = <%=sess.getId()%>, new = <%=sess.isNew()%><br>
<br>
Click here to logout.
</BODY>
</HTML>
----TestLogout.jsp-------
<%
     java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
     HttpSession sess = request.getSession(true);
     System.out.println(date + ":TestLogout.jsp: sessionid = " + sess.getId() + ", new = " + sess.isNew());
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>TestLogout</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<p>
TestLogout.jsp: sessionid = <%=sess.getId()%>, new = <%=sess.isNew()%><br>
<br>
<%
sess.invalidate();
%>
You are now logged out.<br>
<br>
Click here to login.
</BODY>
</HTML>

Hi,
I think it's best to wait for sometime and check the behaviour of sticky load balancing for sometime, the reason being one or more of the following...
- Although sticky feature ensures that the component is run at a single server, when combined with load balancing and under heavy user loads, the load balancing takes place.
- If we rule out the previous case, then, the load balancing mechanism, especially, per component based or per server based, sends request by round robin technique initally(around 128 times or so) and then calculates the effeciency of the response time and then follows the per server based or per component based.
- Meanwhile please ensure that, you have enabled the Sticky LB option under Application using iASAT and please wait for sometime sending requests(probably 130 times) after which it's good to check the mechanism of the sticky bit technique. If it doesn't behaves as it has to then, please let me know and I can help you further on this.
Regards
RG

IChat Load Balancing or failover solution?

Hello, I am working a plan to develop a iChat server. I think a Mac Mini would be a good start for a group of 50 users. The users are all over the country and my role is to unite them all in a iChat domain. I thought about building two Mac Mini servers and have them run a same domain where all users are registered in. So, we would not be impacted when one of them goes down.
Anyway, the question is how can I have a load balancing or failover solution for the iChat domain?

On the issue of load balancing, whilst I don't have any experience with macMini's, you will not need to worry about load balancing with 50 users. I'm sure you can probably put a few naughts on the end of that before you need to worry.
The design you are proposing will not work for iChat services / and for that matter most of Apple server services. For high availability services (e.g. transparent failover) I think you are going to struggle to get this working and it 'seems' Apple no longer offers guidance on this subject on 10.6.x.
You will increase availability by using an Xserve with dual PSUs and raid disks. If you are only running high availability ichat services, I would buy a pair of second hand xserves with 10.5 OS and set the ipfailover services running. Personally I would buy one and a service kit and not bother with HA - as you will find the servers are very reliable.
If you have to use mini's then just have one live and keep a near constant clone of it on another ready to manually swap out if you have a hardware failure.
Your proposed design will not work without a lot of effort non of which is supported by Apple - although it would be rewarding if you did get it working. You cannot have server to server traffic for the same domain as all your application data needs to be stored centrally. OD only provides services for authentication. The ichat server also has its own data store and this is not distributed nor can it be. It is possible to move the data store over to say an enterprise version of mysql and have that distributed.

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