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Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1-3.1.1 High Availability Administration Guide |
1. High Availability in GlassFish Server
2. Setting Up SSH for Centralized Administration
3. Administering GlassFish Server Nodes
About GlassFish Server Clusters
To Preconfigure Nondefault GMS Configuration Settings
To Change GMS Settings After Cluster Creation
To Check the Health of Instances in a Cluster
To Validate That Multicast Transport Is Available for a Cluster
Using the Multi-Homing Feature With GMS
Traffic Separation Using Multi-Homing
Creating, Listing, and Deleting Clusters
To List All Clusters in a Domain
5. Administering GlassFish Server Instances
6. Administering Named Configurations
7. Configuring Web Servers for HTTP Load Balancing
8. Configuring HTTP Load Balancing
9. Upgrading Applications Without Loss of Availability
10. Configuring High Availability Session Persistence and Failover
11. Configuring Java Message Service High Availability
A cluster is a collection of GlassFish Server instances that work together as one logical entity. A cluster provides a runtime environment for one or more Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications. A cluster provides high availability through failure protection, scalability, and load balancing.
The Group Management Service (GMS) enables instances to participate in a cluster by detecting changes in cluster membership and notifying instances of the changes. To ensure that GMS can detect changes in cluster membership, a cluster's GMS settings must be configured correctly.
The following topics are addressed here: