Adding a Load Balancing Device

You can integrate Cisco's Local Director with ColdFusion to provide comprehensive load balancing and fail-over support.  To integrate Local Director with ColdFusion, follow these steps:

  1. Ensure that all the load balancing hardware requirements and special considerations are met.

  2. In the ColdFusion Administrator navigation frame, click Tools>Hardware Integration. The Setting Up Load Balancing Hardware page appears.

  3. In the Setting Up Load Balancing Hardware page, do the following:

    1. Check the Show Advanced data checkbox if you want to view or change the default settings supplied for: HTTP Port, HTTPS Port, and the Update Frequency interval.

    2. In the Internal DNS Name text box, type DNS name of the hardware load balancing device.

    3. In the Internal IP Address text box,  type the IP address of the hardware load balancing device.

    4. In the DFP Agent Listen Port text box, type the port number on which the server DFP agent will listen for incoming LocalDirector connection requests.

  4. Click Submit Changes to apply and save the load balancing configuration information on this page.

 

Tip: Use the   Create New Configuration button to add another load balancing device configuration. This button only clears the existing entries  on the page, it will not remove the saved configuration entries from ColdFusion.

 

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