Prerequisites for Setting Up Load Balancing

Before configuring your load balancer, you must:

• Install a supported web server and configure it. For more information on configuring a supported web server, see Chapter 4, Configuring Web Servers for Load Balancing.

• Install the load balancer plug-in.

  For information on the installation procedure, see Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Installation Guide.

• Create Application Server clusters or server instances to participate in load balancing.

• Deploy applications to these clusters or instances.

If you have a deployment scenario where the Application Server instances and the load balancer are installed on different network domains, then you must create the node agent by specifying the fully qualified domain name using the option, --agentproperties. For example, asadmin create-node-agent --agentproperties remoteclientaddress=machine1.server.example.com test-na. For more information about this command, see create-node-agent(1).