What does "Distributed" option do in CSA

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

What does the "Distributed" option on the CSA -->Application page do? When should it be used?

Environment

All Clarity On premise supported release 

Cause

Information about distributed flag in CSA 

Resolution

When this feature is turned ON, it stores the session information in the database instead of the cache for the individual application server. 

Broadcom recommend to use Session Persistence (or Sticky Sessions) at the load-balancer instead of the distributed option.

Enabling the "Distributed" option can cause a performance burden hit because every request for a server will create two hits to the database (a read and a write). This performance gets worse with larger numbers of users and when users are logged in for longer periods of time.