DynamicHCO feature

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• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

This article is to provide more detail in how to configure DynamicHCO and what is possible and not.

Resolution

In order to use DynamicHCO, it must be enabled in the SmHost.conf file.

enabledynamichco="YES"

And HostConfigObject must be configured to use the Cluster setting.

Multiple Clusters can be configured as well and can set threshold for failover between clusters.

 

Benefits:
Policy Servers can be added or removed from the existing cluster(s).
Use AdminUI or RestAPI to update the HCO and the agents will pickup the changes.

To monitor the HCO changes being reflected at the Agent side, the AgentTrace log need to be enabled with the Connection Mananger(AgentConMgr.conf).
Existing Agent Trace Config file can be merged with the contents(components and data) from AgentConMgr.conf 

Then look for the keyword "GetBestServerIndex" and "GetServer" in the Agent Trace log.

On linux following tail command can be used: tail -F {agenttrace.log filename} |grep -E '(GetBestServerIndex|GetServer)'