10.8 Load Balancing

Products

• CA Application Performance Management (APM / Wily / Introscope)

Issue/Introduction

What is the best way to configure Load Balancing on a 10.8 cluster (MOM and Collectors)?

Resolution

There are various ways you can configure load balancing with 1 MOM and 2 Collectors. In this situation, you have a lot of Agents with two Collectors and hitting the Agent per Collector clamp, your best way is to point the Agents to the MOM and let the MOM handle the load balancing.

Unless there is a business case, in <MOM home>/config/loadbalancing.xml you would not create any entries and allow any agent to be connected to either Collector.

Also if you were to add any additional Collectors, this still would be the best way as MOM keeps an eye on all the Collectors and their health and determines if one Collector is being overloaded, then it can readjust some Agents to go to the other Collectors.

Configure MOM Agent Load Balancing

 

Alternatively if you had 10 Collectors and not hitting the Agent per Collector clamp, then you could customize loadalancing.xml and configure certain Collectors to house certain types of Agents.