Load balancing url

[satish]

Dear Erman,

We have 2 node application in our prod environment.we are not using ssl.our url starts with http://loadbalancerhostname.domain.com.we dont give the port as the default http port is 80.

My concern is,s_external_url in context file on first node is pointing to http://actual_hostname1.domain.com:8001 and on second node, it is pointing to <a href="http://actual_hostname2.domain.com:8001.Is">http://actual_hostname2.domain.com:8001.Is this correct?can you please update us whether s_external_url should point o actual hostname or load balancer hostname?

Thanks for your support

Regards,
satish

[satish]

Dear Erman,

From note id 1375686.1,we could see s_external_ur should point to loadbalancer_hostname.domainname.can we change it accordingly?

what is the issue with current configuration,since 1 year,we are using http://actual_hostname1.domain.com:8001 instead of loadbalancer_hostname.domain name in both the nodes?

Your inputs are helpful

Thanks,
satish

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Your current setup is not correct.
As instructed in not 1375686.1, s_external_url should point to the load balancer url.

This is the url, that third party tools use to connect to the E-Business Suite System.
So probably, currently your traffic is not going fully over your load balancer.
Did you ever trace it? (using your browser's network tracing capabilities)
Anyways, you should update s_external_url ; and run the AutoConfig utility on all the application tier Servers. After that you should restart the application server processes and test signing on from the load balancer entry point.

[satish]

Dear Erman,

Firstly,we thank you for the update.

can you please explain a little bit more,so that we will update to the client

So probably, currently your traffic is not going fully over your load balancer.

Instance was working and no users reported any issues

Regards,
satish

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Did you ever trace it? (using your browser's network tracing capabilities)
I mean your client may connect to EBS using Load Balancer url, what about the url/address that EBS replies back?

[satish]

url is lbhost.domain.com:80

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

your login page comes from the url lbhost.domain.com:80, right?
So after you submit your credential, you are redirected to home page.
When you are in home page, you start using oa server pages.

While using oaf pages, what is the url that you see in your browser's address bar?

[satish]

Thanks for the update erman.

below is the url while accesing OAF pages
http://loadbalancerhost.domain.com/OA_HTML/weboam/oam/gsc/components$target=UATDB$fnctNm=WF*_WORKFLOW.SRVC*_COMPONENT?event=Filter&filterInput=%25&choice=3

[satish]

Missed to update,As suggested we have updated the s_external_url to loadbalancer url and
below is the url while accesing OAF pages
http://loadbalancerhost.domain.com/OA_HTML/weboam/oam/gsc/components$target=UATDB$fnctNm=WF*_WORKFLOW.SRVC*_COMPONENT?event=Filter&filterInput=%25&choice=3

If we didnt do this change,then we might see original hostname instead of loadbalancer hostname?

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Yeah.. maybe.. That's why I asked it in the first place :)