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Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms 

If your Macromedia Breeze license permits, you can install the Breeze Presentation platform on 
two or more computers and then cluster the Breeze Presentation platforms to provide load 
balancing and failover. 

Clustering Breeze Presentation platforms has the following advantages:

You can effectively use third-party hardware or software to provide load balancing and failover 
for HTTP requests. Clustering Breeze Presentation platforms allows them to share session 
data with each other so that load balancing and failover through third-party solutions can 
be effective.

Clustered Breeze Presentation platforms provide their own load balancing for requests to 
create Breeze Flash presentations from Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. 

All Breeze Presentation platforms in a cluster have copies of the same content. If one computer 
in a cluster fails, the Breeze Presentation platform on another computer in the cluster can take 
over and supply the same content. 

Note: 

If you are using Breeze Live as a stand-alone product, all references to the Breeze 

Presentation platform in this white paper apply also to the Breeze application server.

This white paper explains how to cluster Breeze Presentation platforms and verify that the cluster 
functions successfully. The following topics are discussed:

“Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms”

“Verifying failover for HTTP requests” on page 7

“Verifying replication of content across the cluster” on page 8

Summary of Contents for BREEZE-CLUSTERING BREEZE PRESENTATION...

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Page 3: ...eta CONTENTS Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms 5 Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms 6 Verifying failover for HTTP requests 7 Verifying replication of content across the cluster 8 ...

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Page 5: ...rms provide their own load balancing for requests to create Breeze Flash presentations from Microsoft PowerPoint presentations All Breeze Presentation platforms in a cluster have copies of the same content If one computer in a cluster fails the Breeze Presentation platform on another computer in the cluster can take over and supply the same content Note If you are using Breeze Live as a stand alon...

Page 6: ...ration properties in the custom ini file belonging to one of the Breeze Presentation platforms in the cluster For information on setting configuration properties for the Breeze Presentation platform see Chapter 4 Configuring the Breeze Presentation Platform in the Macromedia Breeze Installation Guide Some of the properties you need to set in the custom ini configuration file apply to the Breeze da...

Page 7: ...o verify failover for HTTP requests in a Breeze Presentation platform cluster with two computers 1 Make sure that the Breeze Presentation platform on Computer1 is started and that the Breeze Presentation platform on Computer2 is stopped Before you start the Breeze Presentation platform Microsoft SQL Server 2000 must be running To start the Breeze Presentation platform Select Start Programs Macrome...

Page 8: ...n platform Select Start Programs Macromedia Macromedia Breeze 3 Stop Breeze Server 2 Log in to the Breeze Manager You can log in to the Breeze Manager from the following URL http admin_host servlet admin In the URL admin_host is the host name you entered as the value of the ADMIN_HOST property in the Breeze Presentation platform custom ini configuration file see step 2 under Setting up a cluster o...

Page 9: ...ed 7 Start Computer2 wait 10 seconds or so and then stop Computer1 8 Close the browser window in which you were viewing the test content 9 Open a new browser window and go to the URL for viewing your test content If your test content is displayed replication to Computer2 was successful A blank window or an error message means that replication failed ...

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