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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook If you want to extend your capabilities in administering Oracle WebLogic Server, this is the helping hand you've been looking for. With 70 recipes covering both basic and advanced topics, it will provide a new level of expertise.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
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ISBN-13 9781849686846
Length 284 pages
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Dalton Iwazaki Dalton Iwazaki
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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Install, Configure, and Run FREE CHAPTER 2. High Availability with WebLogic Clusters 3. Configuring JDBC Resources for High Availability 4. Configuring JMS Resources for Clustering and High Availability 5. Monitoring WebLogic Server 12c 6. Troubleshooting WebLogic Server 12c 7. Stability and Performance 8. Security Index

Using the Web Server Plug-in to load balance HTTP Requests to WebLogic cluster


The WebLogic cluster itself does not distribute the incoming HTTP requests across the Managed Servers, so the architecture design should foresee a load balance mechanism.

WebLogic can use either an external load balancer appliance/hardware such as the BIG-IP F5 (http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip), a Web Server such as the Apache HTTP Server configured with the WebLogic Web Server plug-in, or the embedded WebLogic HttpClusterServlet configuration.

Load balancing options:

  • External load balancer

  • Web Server with plug-in

  • WebLogic HttpClusterServlet configuration

For production environments, it is recommended to use a mixed architecture that includes an external load balancer and a Web Server with the proxy plug-in. The HTTP requests will be received and distributed by the external load balancer to the Web Servers, and the Web Servers will then proxy the requests through the plug-in across the WebLogic Managed Servers of...

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