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All of my research says that it is for load balancing and failover.... steps from the help file include "Determines where replicas reside and whether they are marked out of service or pending delete. Checks the server availability index of each server that contains a replica. Checks the availability of the server by pinging the HTTP port or the HTTPS port, depending on the client request. Eliminates any servers that are not reachable or are RESTRICTED. Eliminates any servers that are BUSY or in the MAXUSERS state. Selects a server from those remaining. If there are no servers remaining, the ICM chooses a server that is BUSY or in the MAXUSERS state, if one is available. If there are multiple servers remaining, the ICM chooses the server with the lightest current workload". Fail over occurs: When a server fails, When an HTTP client is connected to a server that fails, the client receives a message saying that the server is not responding. To fail over to a different replica, if one is available, the user must contact the ICM again. The user can do this in the following ways: Click the Back button in the browser one or more times to connect to a page through the ICM: Use a bookmark: Type the URL The user may or may not have to reauthenticate with the new server. This is determined by the following factors: If the user already authenticated with the new server during this session, no authentication is necessary If the HTTP client and the server both support SSL3, reauthentication occurs automatically Do you remember what the cost is associated with Puakma's Web Booster? We are a small shop and would prefer not to spend a lot. We thought about just doing a DNS round robin, but then how do we handle the cache? We are a small shop, only about 550 mail databases, probably only around 200 web users. Maybe 100 web users and 200 Notes clients connected to the system at anyone time. Thanks, Scott Reece System Administrator City of Bend sreece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Office - 541-388-4426 "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. " --JFK Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@ comporium.com> To Sent by: Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 domino400-bounces <domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> +sreece=ci.bend.o cc r.us@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: Internet Cluster Manager 06/27/2006 10:33 AM Please respond to Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 <domino400@midran ge.com> Scott, I have seen a good bit of negative feedback with ICM. I have been testing out Puakma's Web Booster. It will do load balancing/failover for http. Actually, from my understanding, ICM will only do load balancing, right? In my environment I don't want http to be load balanced because our cluster iSeries has a lot less horsepower. Puakma didn't initially have this, but they have since updated it to run in strict failover mode. I also know someone who is running a BlueCoat SG appliance for this. Also, I have not tested ICM personally, but when I was researching this last year I saw where customers didn't recommend ICM. Chris Whisonant Comporium Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2 IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5 IBM Certified Associate Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5 803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/27/2006 12:55:23 PM:
Is anyone using ICM? if so how is it working for you? I would like to
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it for our mail servers, but I also want to hear what anyone you think before I configure it. Is it going to be a performance hit to our mail servers? is it pretty seamless? What about the unread marks problems? please any feedback would be greatly appreciated, good or bad. Thanks, Scott Reece System Administrator City of Bend sreece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Office - 541-388-4426 "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to
you
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