Creating a cluster: Basic cluster settings

Use this page to enter the basic settings for a cluster.

To view this administrative console page, click Servers > Clusters > WebSphere application server clusters > New.

Cluster name

Specifies the name of the cluster. The cluster name must be unique within the cell.

Prefer local

Specifies that the host scoped routing optimization is enabled or disabled. The default is enabled, which means that, when possible, enterprise bean requests are routed to the client host. Enabling this setting improves performance because client requests are sent to local enterprise beans.

Data type Boolean
Default true
Supported configurations: [may2010] If you enable the preferLocal optimization, the deployment manager must be running to affect the configuration. If the deployment manager is shut down, preferLocal optimization is not performed and requests might be dispersed across all the members of the cluster. [may2010]
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sptcfg

Configure HTTP session memory-to-memory replication

Specifies that when the cluster is created, a memory-to-memory replication domain is created for each of the members of this cluster.

If a replication domain is created, it is given the same name as the cluster and is configured with the default settings for a replication domain. When the default settings are in effect, a single replica is created for each piece of data and encryption is disabled.

Also, if a replication domain is created, the SIP container and Web container for each cluster member is configured for memory-to-memory replication.

To modify the replication domain settings, in the administrative console, click Environment > Replication domains > replication_domain_name.

The default mode setting for the replication domain is Both client and server. In this mode, all data sent to either the client or the server is replicated. This setting is good for an environment that has a middle to low traffic load. However, if your environment has a high traffic load, you should change the replication domain mode setting to either Client only , or Server only, because these settings provide better scaling. In Client only mode, only data sent to the client is replicated. In Server only mode, only data sent to the server is replicated.

To modify the mode setting for a replication domain:
  1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name.
  2. Under Container settings, click either SIP container settings or Web container settings, and then click Session management > Distributed environment settings > Memory-to-memory replication.
  3. Select a different mode. It does not matter whether you change the mode under the SIP container or the Web container because the same replication domain settings apply to both containers.
Avoid trouble: If you change any of the replication domain settings for one cluster member, including the mode setting, you should change them for all of the other members of the cluster.gotcha



Related concepts
Clusters and workload management
Related tasks
Creating clusters
Related reference
Creating a cluster: Create first cluster member
Creating a cluster: Create additional cluster members
Creating a cluster: Summary settings
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