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Hello Guys,

I have 3 WFE with load balanced and still if my Server 1 is bad and when i open the seesion it goes to server 1 I receive error message in Sharepoint . What I want is in my session if My server 1 is bad , it redirect me to server 2 so that I can get my site running

 

How can I do it

Kundan

 

This is largely dependant on the type of load balancer you are using, and what you mean by "bad".

Some load balancers will only detect whether a server is present, not the status of the activity that is going on upon it.

Check out this technet article for a starting point

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263044(office.12).aspx

Thanks Andy, My bad means you know those Sharepoint generic error . Where you are not able to view the site due to any ereason. When I refresh the page it still shows the same error while other user are able to view the content. Because of this I assume the specfic web server I am hitting might be corrupt because of anything. and If I hit refrest It should bounce me to other site which is working fine

 

Thanks

Kundan

If you're using the Load Balancing available as part of windows server then I'm afraid you won't be able to have that kind of behaviour.

As far as the load balancer is concerned the SharePoint error page is a perfectly valid HTML response regardless that it's an error and therefore it won't consider the site down.

If you want a load balancer that's application aware, then you're going to have to look at some form of hardware load balancing that's capable of testing pages/servers according to business rules. And these don't come cheap.

Paul.

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Thanks Paul,

Do you have any suggestion thats capable of testing pages  for load balance.

Thanks

 

You'd really need a network engineer to help you there. I know Cisco do some devices that have this functionality, but that's not really my area of expertise..

Paul.

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I used to have this problem until we went to SP2.