Deployment Example 1: Access Manager 7.0 Load Balancing, Distributed Authentication UI, and Session Failover

ProcedureTo Configure the Load Balancer Cookies for the Distributed Authentication UI Servers

  1. Log in as a root user to Authentication UI 1 host.

  2. Go to the following directory:

    # cd /webapps/distAuth/WEB-INF/classes

  3. Modify the AMconfig.properties file.

    Make a backup of this file.

    At the end of the file, uncomment the last two lines and set the following values:

    com.iplanet.am.lbcookie.name=AuthenticationUILBCookie 
    com.iplanet.am.lbcookie.value=AuthenticationUI-1
  4. Restart the Authentication UI 1 host.

  5. As a root user log into host AuthenticationUI–2 .

  6. Go to the following directory:

    # cd /webapps/distAuth/WEB-INF/classes

  7. Modify the AMconfig.properties file.

    Make a backup of this file.

    At the end of the file, uncomment the last two lines and set the following values:

    com.iplanet.am.lbcookie.name=AuthenticationUILBCookie 
    com.iplanet.am.lbcookie.value=AuthenticationUI-2
  8. Restart the Distributed Authentication UI 1 server.