Dear All,

Is there any solution for Load balancing the baan servers?

Hardware or Software load balancing.

We have 5 servers running Service Guard packages and more than 1000 users.
OS HP 11.
DB Oracle8i
Baanc3

Thanks in advance for help.

Eric Thomas

Yes there is ---

I would be inclined to go with the software based redirection products (Veritas has a new one coming out) rather than the hardware based solutions (like Cisco's load balancing switch). Most of the hardware solutions do simple round robin and cannot monitor for hardware util.

The hardware solutions will usually ping or poll a specific port. But the ping could work and a Baan connection to the server will fail due to a service failure. Also, if you poll the Baan rexec port without connecting you will receive a large number of spurious errors from the rexec daemon.

email me if you would like more direct details.

Hope this helps,

-- Jim