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:
Actuate Message Distribution service (MDS) balances the request load among Actuate BIRT iHub machines in an Actuate BIRT iHub cluster.
The Message Distribution service eliminates the need for a third-party network load balancer in front of the Actuate BIRT iHub 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.
Clustered Actuate Information Console machines can use a third-party application to balance the load among the application servers.
Figure 1‑1 Load-balancing architecture for Information Console
