high availability issue of CAS

[Arthur Erdös]

There has recently been a question concerning CAS load balance /
failover. Take a look at
http://www.nabble.com/Best-practice-for-CAS-load-balance-failover-td19912100.html - it might be what you are looking for...

Kind regards,
Arthur


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On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 04:35 -0800, Lin George wrote:
> Sorry for sending to multiple list because I am a new member and do not know which list is better to send. It is appreciated if anyone could advise me which list is the correct one to send this question. I am a CAS new user not developer who wants to contribute CAS code (I may contribute after I am familiar with CAS). :-)
> 
> My question is, after reviewing CAS architecture, I have not found how CAS ensures high availability and scalability.
> 
> More specific question like this,
> 
> - if I only setup one CAS authentication server (service), and if it is not availabile for some reason (e.g. power-off), how to ensure the whole authentication system (including web client and web resources) still works? Or the whole system will not work -- i.e. without authentication server (service), even if end user provides valid credential, he/she can not access the web resources?
> 
> - if the user base is large, how to setup multiple CAS authentication servers (service) to balance load? I did not find related information in the CAS wiki page.
> 
> Any advice are welcome.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> George
> 
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