All, My experience with mid-tier configuration is limited, so bear with me ....
Our system is as follows (ITSM 8.1) : Load balancer -> 5x Mid-tier servers -> Load balancer -> 5x AR Servers For normal user connections, this seems to be working perfectly. We're looking into a method of application and performance monitoring via the mid-tier. Now, we can establish a connection directly to each mid-tier without an issue. That'll allow us to keep an eye on the mid-tier operation. Currently the mid-tiers are only configured to connect to the AR Servers via the load balancer. We can add the individual AR Servers to the mid-tier config pages (so mid-tier1 can have AR Server 1, mid-tier2 can have AR Server 2, etc.), so that would allow us to establish a connection from a specific mid-tier to a specific AR Server via the relevant connection string. However - I wouldn't want to implement something that would break the normal user connection through load balancers. Is this likely to be an issue - users will establish a connection via the mid-tier load balancer URL, will the subsequent user connections from the mid-tier use the "primary" (ie. first defined) server in the mid-tiers AR Server Settings page? Regards Dave Barber _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
