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From: Gianny Damour <gianny.damour@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Enabling Session Affinity in G2.1.4 (using Tomcat w/ WADI)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:41:00 +1000
To: user@geronimo.apache.org

Hi,

There are various way to fulfill session stickiness. I have been  
conducting all my integration tests with HAProxy, http://haproxy. 
1wt.eu/, which does not require downstream load-balanced servers to  
do any manipulations to session cookies.

I created an improvement ticket, https://issues.apache.org/jira/ 
browse/GERONIMO-4626, to capture the need to augment returned session  
cookies with jvmRoute information so that mod_jk can be used. I also  
checked in against trunk some code to address this problem. I have  
not yet integration tested this code change with mod_jk; However, I  
am quite confident with the change.

I intend to do some integration tests over the week-end to confirm  
the proper resolution of this problem. Meanwhile, if you want, you  
can check-out this module:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/trunk/plugins/tomcat/ 
geronimo-tomcat6-clustering-wadi

build it with maven and install the resulting artifact into your  
repository to give it a try.

FWIW, if you can swap your reverse-proxy or load-balancing layer  
currently realised by Apache mod_jk, then I would recommend HAProxy.

Thanks,
Gianny

On 14/05/2009, at 2:02 PM, Jack Cai wrote:

> With WADI, your guess is right that the clusterNodeName in config- 
> substitutions.properties is used to identify each node. So if this  
> is not working, then it's a bug. You can open a JIRA.
>
> -Jack
>
> 2009/5/14 Dennis Cartier <dennis.cartier@gmail.com>
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jack Cai <greensight@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Tomcat native clustering and WADI are two different approaches.
>
> To try out Tomcat native clustering, for example, please refer to  
> this doc [1]. It clearly points
> out that you need to set the "jvmRoute" parameter (note ID) in the  
> config.xml.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Jack
>
> [1] http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/tomcat-native-clustering.html
>
> 2009/5/13 Dennis Cartier <dennis.cartier@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:19 PM, viola lu <viola.lu@gmail.com> wrote:
> First, pls set up tomcat or wadi cluster following this link:  
> http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/clustering-and-farming.html
> and then configure apache http server to realize session affinity,  
> if you use mod_jk way: edit works.properties under $http server  
> install dir/conf with
>     worker.loadbalancer.sticky_session=1
> if you use mod_proxy, you can edit httpd.conf with:
> ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
>
> Viola
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Dennis Cartier  
> <dennis.cartier@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to find out how to configure G2.1.4 for session  
> affinity when using Tomcat and WADI. Would anyone be able to point  
> me in the right direction?
>
> I thought that ClusterNodeName looked like a good guess in the  
> config-substitutions.properties file but that does not seem to  
> attach a node name to the generated session.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
> -- 
> viola
>
> Thanks for the pointers Viola. I am fine with the clustering  
> aspects as far as Apache goes, I am just having trouble getting the  
> node name to be properly appended to the generated JSESSIONID.
>
> I changed to the target namespace as indicated in the G2.2 cluster  
> docs (<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web/ 
> tomcat-2.0.1">) and I already had my WAR marked distributable as  
> well as having the <tomcat-clustering-wadi /> element in place.
>
> Unfortunately I still do not get a node name being appended to the  
> generated session so no affinity results.
>
> I noticed the G2.2 docs had a section on switching WADI to unicast.  
> This sounded optional, I assume the default multicast mode of WADI  
> is functional and changing to unicast is not required?
>
> I remain stumped. With no session affinity my requests are still  
> spraying across the entire cluster rather then being sticky to a  
> single node.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> Hmmm, I am getting the feeling that stick sessions (session  
> affinity) is not possible in WADI clustering? I am not really  
> wanting to switch to Tomcat native clustering at this point. Does  
> anyone know if WADI (as implemented in G2.1.4) supports sticky  
> sessions?
>
> Dennis
>