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CXO-Cockpit can be scaled out to multiple servers to increase the system responsiveness and/or to implement failover scenarios. This article explains how to install the CXO-Cockpit on multiple servers.

Load balancing for the CXO-

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Software Web Application


CXO-Cockpit web application can be installed on several servers. There should be a load balancer provided by the destination infrastructure that passes the HTTP(s) requests from the clients through to one of the available CXO-Cockpit servers. The only requirement to the load balancer is that it must implement "sticky sessions" scenario: all subsequent requests from a certain client must end up to the same CXO-Cockpit server as the first request from that client. The most typical implementation of this scenario is "Cookie-based Persistence". In this scenario the load balancer appends a cookie to the first client's request that cookie is used later on to identify the server all the subsequent requests should be forwarded to.

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