Identify sources of JBoss 7 AS cluster activity

[arothian]

Hello everyone,

I'm in the process of setting up a Jboss 7 cluster that services a EJB3's to a large number of clients. We are running AS 7.1.3 in standalone mode, with the nodes joining in a ejb cluster. One of the questions that has come up, is how to identify the sources for activity on the cluster? If the cluster is working particularly hard, from a technical support perspective it would be useful to know what clients of that cluster the requests are coming from. When I say clients, these are external standalone processes and external jboss AS7.1.3 instances that are not in the EJB cluster.

Any ideas if there is a client id that can be set in the jboss-ejb-client.properites or jboss-ejb-client.xml? It would be great to investigate the cluster and see that X connections are coming from client A.

[wdfink]

If you use the loadbalancing provided by the ejb-client library the load is spread over the cluster and should not overload one of the nodes.

One way to provide client information is to use a client-side interceptor and add the information.

[rhusar]

Any ideas if there is a client id that can be set in the jboss-ejb-client.properites or jboss-ejb-client.xml? It would be great to investigate the cluster and see that X connections are coming from client A.

Would knowing the remote client IP address help here?

[arothian]

Thanks for the hint about the client interceptors. I think that will work for our use case!