Sun Microsystems 2005Q2 Server User Manual


 
CHAPTER 2
Quick Start for Setting Up High
Availability Failover
With the conguration used in the previous chapter, if a server instance goes down,
users lose session state. This section, the second of two advanced topics, provides the
steps for installing the high-availability database (HADB), creating a highly available
cluster, and testing HTTP session persistence.
Application Server supports both HTTP session persistence and persistence for
Stateful Session Beans. The procedures in this chapter cover HTTP session persistence.
These steps assume you have already performed the steps in the previous sections of
this Quick Start. The steps are presented in the order that you should complete them.
Note Completing this section may require additional hardware resources.
This topic contains the following sections:
About High Availability Clusters and HADB on page 26
HADB Preinstallation Steps on page 26
Installing HADB on page 28
Starting HADB on page 28
Conguring a Cluster and Application for High Availability on page 30
Restarting the Clusteron page 31
Verifying HTTP Session Failover on page 32
Cleaning Up on page 33
Where to Go Nexton page 37
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