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Deployment Example 1: Access Manager 7.1 Load Balancing, Distributed Authentication UI, and Session Failover

Appendix E Load Balancers

This appendix collects the information regarding the load balancers. It contains the following table:

The BIG-IP load balancer login page and configuration console for all load balancers in this deployment example is accessed from the URL, is-f5.example.com.

Login

username

Password

password

Table E–1 Load Balancer Configurations

Load Balancer 

Description 

 

Load Balancer 1 

Distribution for the two Directory Server instances that contain Access Manager configuration data instance. 
 

Virtual Server 

LoadBalancer-1.example.com 
 

Port 

389 
 

Pool Name 

DirectoryServer-ConfigData-Pool 
 

Access URL 

LoadBalancer-1.example.com:389 
 

Monitor 

ldap-tcp 

Load Balancer 2 

Distribution for the two Directory Server instances that contains user data. 
 

Virtual Server 

LoadBalancer-2.example.com 
 

Port 

489 
 

Pool Name 

DirectoryServer-UserData-Pool 
 

Access URL 

LoadBalancer-2.example.com:489 
 

Monitor 

ldap-tcp 

Load Balancer 3 

Distribution for the two Web Server applications installed on the Access Manager host machines. 

Note –

SSL is terminated at this load balancer before the request is forwarded to Access Manager. This load-balancer is the single point-of-failure for Access Manager and can be considered a limitation of this deployment example.
 

Virtual Server 

LoadBalancer-3.example.com 
 

Port (external access) 

9443 
 

Port (internal access) 

7070 
 

Pool Name 

AccessManager-Pool 
 

External Access URL 

LoadBalancer-3.example.com:9443 
 

Internal Access URL 

LoadBalancer-3.example.com:7070 
 

Monitor 

AccessManager-http 

Load Balancer 4 

Distribution for the two Web Server applications installed on the Distributed Authentication UI host machines. 

Note –

SSL is terminated at this load balancer before the request is forwarded to the Distributed Authentication User Interface.
 

Virtual Server 

LoadBalancer-4.example.com 
 

Port (external access) 

9443 
 

Port (internal access) 

90 
 

Pool Name 

AuthenticationUI-Pool 
 

External Access URL 

LoadBalancer-4.example.com:9443 
 

Internal Access URL 

LoadBalancer-4.example.com:90 
 

Monitor 

HTTP 

Load Balancer 5 

Distribution for Web Policy Agents. 
 

Virtual Server 

LoadBalancer-5 
 

Port 

90 
 

Pool Name 

WebAgent-Pool 
 

Access URL 

LoadBalancer-5.example.com:90 
 

Monitor 

WebAgent-http 

Load Balancer 6 

Distribution for J2EE Policy Agents 
 

Virtual Server 

LoadBalancer-6 
 

Port 

91 
 

Pool Name 

J2EEAgent-Pool 
 

Access URL 

LoadBalancer-6.example.com:91 
 

Monitor 

tcp