RE:[cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-19 Thread Bruno Melloni
Hello Rolly, I was wondering if by any chance you wrote down how you did the CAS clustering on JBoss for future use. If you did, would you mind sharing it? Later this year I'll be clustering CAS on a 2-node jBoss cluster just like you did, and anything you can share will save me tons of time

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-09 Thread Scott Battaglia
We run memcached on the same servers that run CAS. We actually run them with the repcache patch which means they both have the data in them. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Rolly Ferolino rferol...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Scott. Are you using the same two-node CAS servers as your memcached

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-09 Thread Rolly Ferolino
Hey Scott, Thank you for sharing the info on your installation that uses repcache. Would you mind sharing your stats? I would love to use it for comparison/benchmark with our stats for JBOSS-cache. Thanks, Rolly University of Phoenix On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Scott Battaglia

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-09 Thread Scott Battaglia
In a normal day we've gotten up to about 7K of authentications in one hour. I've seen significantly more than that in a shorter period of time (possibly even as low as within 10 minutes). Those stats are from our Web Registration period which we don't have logged any more. That is obviously not

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-08 Thread Scott Battaglia
We're using a two-node CAS server with memcached to handle about 50K users. We have plenty of capacity left over. If I remember (or someone reminds me) I can see if I can gather our authentication/seconds or authentication/minute stats. I'm not at my desk now so I'll have to do it tomorrow.

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-08 Thread Rolly Ferolino
Thanks, Scott. Are you using the same two-node CAS servers as your memcached servers; or do you have separate servers for your memcached. One thing that worries us about memcached is the single-point of failure. Do you use a backend DB to reduce the risk (check memchached, if not exists check DB

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-05 Thread Rolly Ferolino
Scott, Thanks for this info. Could you tell me what TicketRegistry provider do you use to replicate the tickets? We will be using JBOSS Cache on a four-node Tomcat cluster. Do you use synchronous multicast or async? I appreciate all other pointers that you can share for clustering. Thanks,

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-05 Thread Rolly Ferolino
Azhar, Thank you for your suggestion. Initially, I had the same concern. However, Scott's reply verified that terminating SSL at the VIP works. Rolly On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Azhar K Mustapha azhark.musta...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, If I am not mistaken CAS is using a secure cookie

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-05 Thread Rolly Ferolino
Marvin, Thank you for the reply. Would you mind sharing your cluster configuration? We are testing our installation on a four-node Tomcat cluster, using JBOSS Cache to replicate the TicketRegistry. We are planning to serve 80K users and I am concern right now on how much users and how many nodes

[cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-04 Thread Rolly Ferolino
Hello, We are in the process of implementing CAS in a four-node cluster behind a Netscaler VIP. What is the best practice for hosting the SSL certificate? Do we host it on VIP or the servers? If the VIP is accepting request on port 443, do we forward that request to CAS server port 8443 (SSL) or

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-04 Thread Marvin Addison
What is the best practice for hosting the SSL certificate? There's no best practice here. If you want to leverage the SSL offloading capabilities of your load balancing hardware, host the certificate on the LB and forward the request to a non-SSL port on the application server. If you feel the

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-04 Thread Adam Rybicki
It's really your call. If Netscaler can handle SSL in hardware, it would be able to offload the CAS servers from encryption processing. The beauty of this approach is that you only have one certificate and one host that has to match the name in the certificate. Since CAS cluster commonly

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-04 Thread Azhar K Mustapha
Dear all, If I am not mistaken CAS is using a secure cookie called CASTGC to enable Single Sign On by tracing CAS login. If you tried to load SSL to LB and redirect http to the application server, I am afraid the Single Sign On might be affected. A cheaper way is to buy one SSL certificate which

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-04 Thread Scott Battaglia
We terminate SSL at our Cisco ACE and we have no issues with TGTs. Cheers, Scott On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Azhar K Mustapha azhark.musta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, If I am not mistaken CAS is using a secure cookie called CASTGC to enable Single Sign On by tracing CAS login. If

Re: [cas-user] Where to host the SSL Certificate in clustered CAS?

2010-02-04 Thread Azhar K Mustapha
Dear Scott, Thanx for the info. Azhar On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Scott Battaglia scott.battag...@gmail.comwrote: We terminate SSL at our Cisco ACE and we have no issues with TGTs. Cheers, Scott On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Azhar K Mustapha azhark.musta...@gmail.com wrote: