How to test the failover in a cluster?

[thomas2008ch]

I configured a cluster with 2 Jboss nodes. And I wrote a simple  WebService which just printout "Hello World".

I deploy this WebService  on the nodes.   Assumed calling the WebService is as follow:

http://node1_addr:8080/TestWebService/

and

http://node2_addr:8080/TestWebService/

Now I stop the node1 and try to call up the WebService at node1 with

http://node1_addr:8080/TestWebService/.

I hope this will change over to  node2 since they are clustered. But I get error.

What's wrong?

[krajwade]

Hi Thomas,

Were you able to test the failover in JBoss 5 cluster ?  If yes, can you please tell me the steps for the same. I am also having the same problem when trying to test failover in Jboss 5 farming deployment.

[thomas2008ch]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply.

I haven't found out any solution yet.

I keep looking for that.

[thomas2008ch]

Hi,

I found a way to test the fail-over in a cluster. You can find this in book "jboss in action" Chapter 12.2.2.Creating a clustered EJB.

But I am still looking for a method to test the fail-over on a web application.

[krajwade]

Thanks Thomas. I have one more confusion. What is a way to get session replication and server fail-over for an enterprise application (EAR containing a war file and ejb.jar ), an external load balancer or client side interceptor ?