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Creating a Virtual IP Address for the Siebel Web Engine and Siebel Analytics Web

You create a virtual IP address for the Siebel Web Engine (SWE) and Siebel Analytics Web in order to make it appear that all servers are running on the same virtual machine. One way to do this is to configure Siebel Analytics Web to run on a different port (for example, port 84) from SWE (which usually runs on port 80).

For example, the following settings are true:

Therefore, the network or load-balancing software should be configured to route requests like http://siebel.company.com to <machine1> and <machine2>, but to route requests like http://siebel.company.com:84 to <machine3>.

The following procedure gives the steps to set up the load-balancer or router used to do the virtual IP configuration.

To create a virtual IP address for Siebel Web Engine and Siebel Analytics Web

  1. On the network, set up the load-balancer or router to direct requests from <virtual domain> to <physical Siebel Web Server Extension machine>, where <virtual domain> is the virtual IP prefix that users enter to navigate to the Siebel applications.

    (In the preceding example, this is http://siebel.company.com.)

  2. On the network, set up the load-balancer or router to direct requests from <virtual domain>:84 to <physical analytics web machine>:84.
  3. In the Siebel application, from the Siebel Administration screen, set the NQHost parameters for Siebel Analytics Symbolic URLs to point to the port <virtual domain>:84, instead of directly to the Siebel Analytics Web server physical machine.
  4. In the Siebel application, add the following registry setting on the Siebel Analytics Web machine:

    .../Web/7.5/Charts/ForceFileBasedPainter = true


 Siebel Analytics Installation and Configuration Guide
 Published: 09 September 2004