Hi Filip~ That is an interesting possible solution (seems easy too). I will give that a try. Thank you for the quick response. Cheers!
----- Original Message ---- From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <devli...@hanik.com> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:57:26 PM Subject: Re: Consequences of Reusing Clustered JSESSIONID >this is because apache a2 only has routes for td201 and td202... but not >td101... therefore it doesn't know how to handle td101. why don't you setup all four routes for a1 and a2. then use the mod_proxy_balancer lbset variable to set a preferred route, and problem will be solved Filip Theparanoidone Theparanoidone wrote: > Greetings~ > > I would like to reuse the JSESSIONID route betweened clustered tomcats... and > I'm wondering if there are negative consequences for doing so. > > We have the following setup: > 2 data centers... (d1 / d2) > 2 apache mod_proxy_balance (ad1, ad2) > 4 tomcat servers (td101, td102, td201, td202) > --- sessions are replicated between both data centers (fortunately our > application is light enough that this should be okay for our needs) > > d1 d2 > | | > ad1 ad2 > / \ / \ > td101 -- td102 -- -- td201 -- td202 > > > > Our clients are "stuck" to a particular tomcat server and data center upon > logging in; however, if we need to perform maintenance... we switch everyone > over to an "up" data center while we do maintenance on the "down" center. > > So, in normal operation... a client will always reconnect to td101. > If we flip to maintenance mode... they'll be redirected to d2... HOWEVER our > current... > While at d2... they will ping/pong in between td201 and td202... (this is > because apache a2 only has routes for td201 and td202... but not td101... > therefore it doesn't know how to handle td101. > > Our application still works... it's just messy flip flopping between 2 tomcat > servers for every request. > > I'm considering relabeling the routes as follows (td1, td2, td1, td2) > > d1 d2 > | | > ad1 ad2 > / \ / \ > td1 -- td2 -- -- td1 -- td2 > > > Is there any weird route collisions or problems in doing this? > Do routes really have to be unique if our application controls which physical > data center a customer connects to? > > Thanks! > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org