Hello all,
I've built a very simple 2-member Tomcat cluster for testing, but I am
unable to get the session replication quite right. The problem is when
I fail one member of the cluster. The behavior I was expecting is that
the other cluster member would take over the session ids for the failed
member. However it is appending it's own jvmRoute value to the session
id, and thus setting a new cookie.
Details:
I have 2 cluster members, "itchy" and "scratchy", running on the same
physical server, and CATALINA_BASE is /var/tomcat/itchy and
/var/tomcat/scratchy respectively. Tomcat 6.0.18 binaries, etc. are at
/usr/local/tomcat. Using mod_jk 1.2.27 on Apache 2.2.11 (Apache is also
on the same server). I am using sticky sessions.
Here are the access logs for the 2 members from a short "failover"
experiment (note I'm including the session ID in the 2nd field). The
session starts on scratchy. From scratchy_access_log.2009-04-02.txt:
192.168.200.177 E5BF3FFA9AEE1E3AB0DD4A96BA5E4011.scratchy -
[02/Apr/2009:10:19:55 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 14612
192.168.200.177 E5BF3FFA9AEE1E3AB0DD4A96BA5E4011.scratchy -
[02/Apr/2009:10:20:14 -0400] "GET /about/ HTTP/1.1" 200 19507
At 10:21:39 AM I do a kill -9 on the scratchy instance. Now the traffic
goes to the other cluster member as expected. From
itchy_access_log.2009-04-02.txt:
192.168.200.177 E5BF3FFA9AEE1E3AB0DD4A96BA5E4011.itchy -
[02/Apr/2009:10:22:11 -0400] "GET /about/publications/ HTTP/1.1" 200 18263
192.168.200.177 E5BF3FFA9AEE1E3AB0DD4A96BA5E4011.itchy -
[02/Apr/2009:10:22:32 -0400] "GET /about/changes/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12736
Note however that the new member's jvmRoute value is now appended to the
session id. I thought is was supposed to stay exactly the same after
failover.
Additional details can be found as follows:
server.xml for "itchy" - see:
http://gillnet.mdibl.org/~mcmorran/itchy-server.xml.txt
server.xml for "scratchy" - see:
http://gillnet.mdibl.org/~mcmorran/scratchy-server.xml.txt
context.xml (identical) - see:
https://gillnet.mdibl.org/~mcmorran/context.xml.txt
workers.properties:
https://gillnet.mdibl.org/~mcmorran/workers.properties
I've also included the catalina.out file for both, from startup and
through the test at:
https://gillnet.mdibl.org/~mcmorran/itchy-catalina.out
https://gillnet.mdibl.org/~mcmorran/scratchy-catalina.out
I'd appreciate any advice on where I went wrong. Thanks and best wishes,
Roy
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Roy McMorran
Systems Administrator
MDI Biological Laboratory
mcmor...@mdibl.org
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