Suspending and resuming connections  Load balancing and chaining

Chapter 1: Overview

Server pools and routing

OpenSwitch allows you to create one or more logical groups of servers (each group containing any number of Adaptive Servers), and to route individual connections to a given pool of servers using the incoming user name, the host name, or the application name of the connection as illustrated in Figure 1-3. This ensures that administrative requests or automatic failover occurs at the same time and in the same way for all application users.

Figure 1-3: Routing example

Routing example.

In this example, all incoming PowerBuilder® connections are routed to Pool A, for which the primary server is Server 1 and the failover server is Server 2. The JCBC client connections are routed to Pool C, for which the primary server is Server 2 and the failover server is Server 3. All isql connections are routed to Pool B, for which the primary server is Server 3 and the failover server is Server 4.

See “Defining pools” for more information about using server pools and routing.





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