I'm somewhat confused here....
My WEB-INF directory has a web.xml file in it. The docs say that to cluster it, it should have <distributable /> in it. Now, what's the difference between web.xml and orion-web.xml? Which should my webapp have in its WEB-INF directory? In fact, I've noticed the same kind of difference with applications, with orion-application and application. the non orion- versions of the files are documented, while I can't seem to find docs for the orion- ones...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Duffey
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 6:16 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Clustering in Orion
>
>
> I have clustered Orion, but there is alot I don't know about
> it. I have
> learned that Orion does session replication to every server
> in the cluster
> farm. I have not been able to test it with a load-balancer yet. Anyone
> happen to know of a "free" software load-balancer that can be
> used to test
> multiple servers with?
>
> Clustering with Orion is easy. You just add a <cluster id="x" /> to
> server.xml on each server in the Orion/config dir. x is equal
> to a unique
> number on each server.
>
> then you add a <cluster-config /> to each orion-web.xml in
> the WEB-INF dir
> of a web app. That should cluster it.
>
> There are a number of issues I am not sure of however. If you
> run orion with
> the -console2 option, it brings up a SWING based admin
> console, and you can
> open the http tree and see the web-apps running, then look at
> sessions in
> each of those apps. When I cluster two servers, and hit one,
> the session
> data appears in both servers. However, on the server that the
> session was
> not created on, the values of the objects in the session are
> not available.
> This confuses me because I figured if I hit the other server
> that has been
> replicated to, and passed along the session ID
> (jsessionid=xxx), that it
> would automatically make that session available to me.
> However, one of our
> engineers mentioned that a session is stored via the ip
> address being hit.
> Thus, even though the session data is saved on two servers,
> trying to access
> the same session from two different ip addresses won't work.
> My only dilema
> here is..if a server goes down (say the one the session data
> was created
> on), so only one is left, does that automatically take over?
> I can't get
> this to work because I don't have a load balancer. I assume using a
> load-balancer is easy enough and this would work. Anyone from
> the Orion team
> care to respond..that would be great if you could explain how
> this is done.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Clustering in Orion
>
>
> > If I had any information about it, sure. I only have one
> > machine; clustering isn't really an option for me.
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Pedro Garcia Lopez wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Joseph,
> > >
> > > Congratulation for your interesting site about Orion.
> > > My question is about clustering ?
> > >
> > > Do you plan to include some help in this issue ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Pedro
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://cupid.suninternet.com/~joeo HOMES.COM Developer
> >
> >
>
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