Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms
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Beta CONTENTS Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms . ................................ 5 Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Verifying failover for HTTP requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Verifying replication of content across the cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms If your Macromedia Breeze license permits, you can install the Breeze Presentation platform on two or more computers and then cluster the Breeze Presentation platforms to provide load balancing and failover. Clustering Breeze Presentation platforms has the following advantages: • You can effectively use third-party hardware or software to provide load balancing and failover • • for HTTP requests.
Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms Each Breeze Presentation platform in a cluster must be able to access the Breeze database. Because licensing restrictions do not allow more than one Breeze Presentation platform to access the Breeze database engine, you must use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for the Breeze database. The following figure illustrates a cluster with a load balancer and with the Breeze Presentation platform on three computers.
Verifying failover for HTTP requests This section describes a procedure for verifying that your Breeze Presentation platform cluster provides failover in the event that one of the computers in the cluster fails. The procedure assumes that there are two computers in the cluster, Computer1 and Computer2. The steps for verifying failover with more than two computers is very similar.
3 Start the Breeze Presentation platform on Computer2. 4 Stop the Breeze Presentation platform on Computer1. 5 Click the Reports tab. If failover is successful, the Breeze Manager Reports page opens. If the login page opens or any other page is displayed, failover was not successful.
5 Make a note of the URL. You will use it in step 9. 6 Click the URL. Your test content is displayed. 7 Start Computer2, wait 10 seconds or so, and then stop Computer1. 8 Close the browser window in which you were viewing the test content. 9 Open a new browser window and go to the URL for viewing your test content. If your test content is displayed, replication to Computer2 was successful. A blank window or an error message means that replication failed.
Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms
