Yes, LJ did a good job of explaining what I've observed. The load balancer is a physical device that sits between the nodes and the end users.
Axton Grams On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting...so if I am connected to Node 1 behind the load balancer > and Node 1 dies, I notice the failure. But all users connected to Nodes > 2 and 3 continue humming along like nothing happened? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:59 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: Midtier Clustering > > For the most part it is possible. Since the remedy java api's do not > support serialization and/or due to the weird licensing arrangement of > mid-tier, sessions must be persistent behind a load balancer. This > means that all sessions to a given host will cease working in the > event of a node failure in the cluster. Users on the other nodes will > not notice an interruption. > > Axton Grams > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ** >> >> Hi everyone: >> >> >> >> Is it possible to create a high availability Midtier cluster? That is, > a >> cluster of Midtier servers that behave as a virtual single server so > that if >> one server fails the other picks up the load without the end users > noticing? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Norm >> >> __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" >> html___ > > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"