November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1488 pages
36h 35m
English
There are two mechanisms through which WebLogic can detect server failures in a cluster:
Monitoring IP socket connections to a peer server
Sending and receiving heartbeat messages
When a server connects to one of its peers in a cluster through an IP socket, WebLogic Server monitors errors on that socket. Should there be an unexpected closure, the peer server is marked as failed and all of its associated services are removed from the cluster-wide JNDI naming tree.
If the clustered server instances are not using open sockets for peer-to-peer communication, failed servers can still be detected ...
Read now
Unlock full access