[Deploying Sakai] Load balancing and sticky sessions

Jean-Francois Leveque jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr
Wed Apr 14 01:50:15 PDT 2010


I've just learnt it's an option.

How do I do it on the Sakai servers side?

Dave Ross a écrit :
> Cookie based persistence not an option?
> 
> 
> On 4/13/10, Jean-Francois Leveque <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The current UPMC load balancing is done by IP-based sticky sessions.
>>
>> This is inefficient with users going through proxies and requests done
>> by the main portal on behalf of users.
>>
>> Our load-balancer admin offered to do the load-balancing based on a
>> parameter in the URL sur as:
>>
>> http://<sakai instance domain name>/...?server=<serverId>
>>
>> Can this be done and if it can, how do I do this ?
>>
>> Please note that each Tomcat server is behind its own apache HTTPD
>> server  and accessed through mod_proxy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Francois Leveque
>> Sakai CTO @ UPMC


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