WLS 6.0 and Iplanet 4.1 proxy problems

Question

Could someone confirm what is the latest version of IPlanet webserver
that is supported under WLS 6.0 SP2.
We are running under AIX 4.3.3 and have a Iplanet 4.0 sp4 webserver
running a connection to a backend WLS 6.0 sp2 instance also on AIX.
We are also running the libproxy_4x.so wl proxy file which allows us
to specify which IP in the obj.conf to have WLS 6.0 respond to vs. the
default ip on the server. The webserver runs on an aliased IP address
and due to firewall restrictions we must have WLS 6.0 talk back to the
IP that called the wl proxy. This does work correctly.
We have tried to duplicate this configuration under IPlanet 4.1 sp8
and we are getting the following errors with the wl proxy file:
[13/Oct/2001:03:42:15] failure (20564): for host x.x.x.x trying to GET
/testpath, wl-proxy reports: exception occurred for backend host
'x.x.x.x/6100': 'CONNECTION_REFUSED [os error=78, line 1282 of
URL.cpp]: x.x.x.x:6100'
This leads me to believe that it is the version of IPlanet server that
is causing the problem when it is calling the wl proxy. If someone is
running Iplanet 4.1 on AIX and using the wl proxy could you reply with
which service pack for Iplanet 4.1 works. We need to upgrade our
IPlanet to the latest version that will work with this configuration.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jamin Kumelski
Internet System Administrator
AdvancePCS

Answer 1

I have a question. Will WebLogic only listen to connections being
established from NES on the aliased IP? From what it looks like, with the
version of NES that you have, the NSAPI plugin is trying to establish a
connection to Weblogic on the primary IP, not the aliased IP.
There was a new feature added to the NES Plugin that allows you to bind the
plugin to a certain IP address in the case that you are using an IP Alias.
When the plugin makes a connection to WebLogic, it will first bind to the
specified IP address in the obj.conf.
The new parameter is: WLLocalIP.
I do believe the latest service pack for 6.1 (SP01) has the AIX plugin that
has this new parameter.
Regards,
Eric
BEA WebLogic
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Could someone confirm what is the latest version of IPlanet webserver
that is supported under WLS 6.0 SP2.
We are running under AIX 4.3.3 and have a Iplanet 4.0 sp4 webserver
running a connection to a backend WLS 6.0 sp2 instance also on AIX.
We are also running the libproxy_4x.so wl proxy file which allows us
to specify which IP in the obj.conf to have WLS 6.0 respond to vs. the
default ip on the server. The webserver runs on an aliased IP address
and due to firewall restrictions we must have WLS 6.0 talk back to the
IP that called the wl proxy. This does work correctly.
We have tried to duplicate this configuration under IPlanet 4.1 sp8
and we are getting the following errors with the wl proxy file:
[13/Oct/2001:03:42:15] failure (20564): for host x.x.x.x trying to GET
/testpath, wl-proxy reports: exception occurred for backend host
'x.x.x.x/6100': 'CONNECTION_REFUSED [os error=78, line 1282 of
URL.cpp]: x.x.x.x:6100'
This leads me to believe that it is the version of IPlanet server that
is causing the problem when it is calling the wl proxy. If someone is
running Iplanet 4.1 on AIX and using the wl proxy could you reply with
which service pack for Iplanet 4.1 works. We need to upgrade our
IPlanet to the latest version that will work with this configuration.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jamin Kumelski
Internet System Administrator
AdvancePCS