We are currently configured two servers for load balancing. As in MetaFrame 1.8 For Windows, load balancing factor can be set. I wonder how we can do the same in the UNIX version. Thanks for helping.
As with MF 1.8, you need a load-balancing license, and also as with MF 1.8, the load balancing factor is a number between 1 - 10000. The default is 100.
Remember to stop the ICA daemon before making these tweaks, by using ctxsrv stop browser, and restarting it afterwards.
With ctxcfg, use -l to limit the number of users permitted on the server, and -k loadfactor to adjust the load factor.
Normally you'd only want to do this if one or more servers are significantly more underpowered than the rest, or one or more servers have a heavier load due to users' specific application requirements.
Use ctxcfg -g | grep loadfactor to view the existing load factor (and prove your tweaks are set).
To display the load for a particular server or application, use ctxqserver -app [application-name | server-name]
Thanks.
What does the load factor mean?
If I want to set, for example, one server receive all the connection and the other one does not. What should I set?
We will implement this in the production server and contigency server.
As far as I understand it, the load factor is just a number from 1 - 10000. 1 being low load. By setting the load to 10000 you will have that machine marked as having full load, and connections will not occur to that server. There are a couple of special numbers, which I think are in the admin guide.
I would guess that you could do it either way; you could either set a high load factor on one server to prevent connections, or you could set users to 0.
Try these settings on your contingency server first ;-)
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