Completely agree with you! Regards, Karthik
On 10 September 2012 23:27, Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC <lj.longwing....@mda.mil > wrote: > Well...one thing that I have always looked for in a load balancing is a > 'smart' capability to tell you that something is functional. I have found > most of the balancers on the market to not allow what I consider smart > balancing. Most will do a ping, open a port, check a URL, that sort of > thing, but in a Remedy world just because ARServer allows you to open the > port it is on, doesn't mean that the Remedy is functional. Just because > the Mid-Tier login page opens doesn't mean that it's functional. I have > found that some LB suites have various scripting capabilities, but in > general I have found creating API based monitoring tools that provide 'port > opening' capabilities to be a 'full' solution. The general capabilities > that I'm referring to are session affinity (NLB has this apparently). The > rest are probes, the ability to probe your intended subject to see if the > capabilities you are looking for are functional. As previously discussed, > most of these probes are 'dumb', but they are smarter than nothing. NLB > doesn't seem to have any probe capability, the simple 'am I on' is enough > to route traffic to the node. I personally think that it's important to > probe deeply into the application to know that it's not only on, but > functional before routing traffic, and NLB doesn't meet this probing > requirement. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mauricio M. > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 11:20 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: MS Network Load Balancing (NLB) with AR Server Groups > > ** Hello, > > thank you, what would be some of those specific configurations or > capabilities? > > -Mauricio > > > 2012/9/10 Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC <lj.longwing....@mda.mil> > > > Mauricio, > I recently re-looked at MS NLB and found it to be 'lacking' of > proper load balancing configuration capabilities, but I haven't looked real > close at it either. I much prefer an independent LB tool. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mauricio M. > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 11:06 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: MS Network Load Balancing (NLB) with AR Server Groups > > ** Hello, > > > Does anyone have any experience or feedback using Microsoft NLB > for load balancing with AR System 7.6.04? > > There are a few old posts about NLB but nothing recent > > Thank you in advance, > > Mauricio > > _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > > > _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
