Understanding Actuate Information Console load balancing
Actuate Information Console supports two kinds of load balancing, as illustrated in Figure 1-1, to ensure high availability and to distribute tasks for efficient processing:
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Actuate Message Distribution Service (MDS) balances the request load among Actuate BIRT iServer machines in an Actuate BIRT iServer cluster.
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The Message Distribution service eliminates the need for a third-party network load balancer in front of the Actuate BIRT iServer tier. Actuate Information Console determines which machines in a cluster have MDS running and detects when the MDS machines go offline. MDS distributes the load among the available servers and does not attempt to send a request to an offline machine.
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Clustered Actuate Information Console machines can use a third-party application to balance the load among the application servers.
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