The Ip failover will work even if your not using CFM pages. CC binds to the
windsock of the server and all you have to do is configure CC and bind the
live Ips of the site to IIS as secondary host header entries.
To answer your question: yes you can use ClusterCats instead of Enterprise
NT.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Williams, Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 3:37 PM
Subject: RE: clustercats failover and SSL
> Since we're on the subject of clustercats I was wondering if it can work
> with three sites, not necessarily using CF? I have three sites on one box
> (one static/CF and two JSP sites passing requests to a JRUN server on a
> different box). I'd like to implement some type of failover on this box.
> But, since there are three sites on three different IP's can clustercats
> failover these three IPs to three different IPs. So, if something happens
> on the primary box, all three sites get converted to the backup box?
(using
> IIS on NT 4)
>
> I've been told that clustercats is only tied to the application server and
> wanted to clarify whether or not this it true? I appreciate any light
that
> can be shed on this, as the clustercats documentation seems to be lacking.
>
> Thanks!
> Ryan Williams
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: Re: clustercats failover and SSL
>
>
> When I set up our servers the first time I added in clustercats in for
load
> balancing and it appeared to never work when we load tested. The IP
> failover does work though. I know with IIS4 that you can install the
same
> certificate on mutiple machines. What you can try if your having trouble
is
> using a shorter password when you generate the cert (we had a problem with
> to long of a password with a cert before. If you are trying to get rid of
> the IP failover you have to uninstall clustercats and when you reinstall
it
> just don't select the option for IP assumption. The CF manual isn't very
> clear but just read it very closely.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:31 AM
> Subject: clustercats failover and SSL
>
>
> > I'm using IIS on NT 4 SP6, CF Enterprise 4.51 SP2, and ClusterCats on a
> > cluster of machines. I need to use SSL for some of my sites. Right now
I
> > have a distinct verisign cert for each machine, and in testing it
appears
> > that load-balancing works fine. But it doesn't seem to me that failover
> is
> > going to work, as the browser will be expecting the cert for server A
and
> > server B won't have it. IIS won't allow me to put two certs on server A
> > unless they're assigned to different IP addresses, and a wildcard cert
> > (*.foo.com) apparently is incompatible with some browsers.
> >
> > Any ideas? Is anybody using SSL and Clustercats failover?
> >
> > And does anyone know how to configure Clustercats so it does
> load-balancing
> > but not failover?
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> > Martin Herbener
> > Kentucky Department of Education
> >
> >
>
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