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JBoss EAP6 High Availability

By : Weinan Li
Book Image

JBoss EAP6 High Availability

By: Weinan Li

Overview of this book

High availability is a system design approach and associated service implementation which ensures that a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period. High availability is usually a system combined with many different components that achieve different goals. High availability cluster implementations attempt to build redundancy into a cluster to eliminate single points of failure. JBoss EAP6 High Availability is the perfect guide for learning how to apply the newest technologies provided by JBoss to build your high availability system. With a clear explanation of the design of JBoss EAP6 and its clustering components, this book will help you customize each component to fulfill your specific requirements. Throughout the course of this book, you will learn how to build high availability clusters using the projects provided by JBoss. The book begins with an introduction to the design of JBoss EAP6 and its uses. The next step will be to explore the two companion open source projects - mod_jk and mod_cluster. In this section, you will get to grips with the concept of load balancing with mod_jk and mod_cluster. You will also learn how to enable SSL in the clustering environment and how to configure session replication between EAP6 servers. Furthermore, the appendix section introduces you to some troubleshooting techniques for Wildfly.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JBoss EAP6 High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up a server group


In this section we'll start doing some configurations in EAP6. As we know, there are two server groups already set up for us in JBoss EAP6:

  • main-server-group

  • other-server-group

And in Chapter 2, Using JBoss EAP6, we have played with main-server-group. In this chapter we'll use other-server-group.

The main-server-group versus other-server-group

The major difference is that they are using two different profiles. You can see this in domain.xml:

<server-group name="main-server-group" profile="full">...
<server-group name="other-server-group" profile="full-ha">...

As shown in the preceding configuration, we don't define different profiles into different configuration files in the domain mode. Instead it's defined in different profile sections in domain .xml.

Server configuration

Now let's start configuring our server group. Because we need to configure two EAP6 instances on two different machines, let's go through them one by one. Let's start with master.

Setting up...