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Implementing Load-Balancing with Central Dispatch

This chapter describes the installation and configuration Central Dispatch for those who will implement connection brokering and load-balancing under UNIX. Central Dispatch brokers requests between Web clients and the Application Object Managers in the Siebel Servers.

You must install Central Dispatch on any given machine before you can install Siebel Server.

The installation and configuration of the Central Dispatch consists of the tasks listed in Table 6.

Table 6.   Central Dispatch Installation and Configuration Tasks
Who Performs It?
Task
System Administrator
  1. Plan your Central Dispatch site. See Planning Your Central Dispatch Site.
  2. Provide for network connectivity between each node. See Network Connectivity for Central Dispatch.
  3. Install Central Dispatch on each machine for which you want to allow load-balancing. See Installation Tasks for Central Dispatch.
  4. Configure Central Dispatch. See Configuring the Central Dispatch Site.


 Siebel Server Installation Guide for UNIX 
 Published: 24 June 2003