Working With Session Cookie Names

Session stickiness, generally, refers to ensuring that the requests for a particular session get routed to the same physical machine that serviced the first request for that session. This helps to reduce the situation where sessions are lost as a result of requests for a session being routed to different servers.

For either of the following scenarios, all PeopleSoft web servers need to have the same session-cookie name:

• The Load-Balancer uses the PeopleSoft web server's session-cookie as the stickiness criterion.

• Any of the supported proxy servers is used to forward requests to the PeopleSoft web servers.

Ensure that the session-cookie name is the same for all web server instances to which the Load Balancer or proxy dispatches requests. The cookie name needs to be configured in the appropriate configuration section of the Load-Balancer or proxy server.