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How To Check Session Persistence On BigIP F5, Cisco Ace, Citrix Netscaler or Radware AppDirector Load
Balancer Appliances (Doc ID 601694.1)
In this Document
Goal
Solution
Section 1: F5 BigIp
Section 2: Cisco Application Control Engine Module (ACE)
Section 3: Radware AppDirector
Section 4: Citrix Netscaler
References
APPLIES TO:
Oracle Applications Technology Stack - Version 11.5.10.0 to 12.1.3 [Release 11.5 to 12.1]
Oracle Applications Framework - Version 12.1.3 to 12.1.3 [Release 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
GOAL
***Checked for relevance 20-MAY-2013***
This document aims to help the customer verify their persistence settings on F5 BigIP and Cisco ACE load balancer appliances. It provides
instructions on checking specific persistence settings on the hardware device to ensure correct eBusiness suite functioning.
Maintaining session persistence is essential to ensuring a users session remains on the same middle tier throughout the duration of their
session. When the session is not maintained on the one middle tier users may experience the 'Transaction context is lost' message See Note
456906.1.
Session Persistence is the act of keeping a specific user's traffic going to the same server that was initially hit when the site was contacted
for the first HTTP transaction. This is especially important for E-Business Suite as various modules bundled with the suite need to maintain
session state. Session persistence is sometimes referred to as "server stickiness."
Section 1: F5 BigIp
Section 2: Cisco Application Control Engine Module (ACE)
SOLUTION
Section 1: F5 BigIp
Step 1: Check the load balancing method being used. This controls how requests are balanced by BigIp between your web
nodes
From the BigIp home screen select Local Traffic - Pools
Choose the Oracle pool you created for the eBusiness Suite configuration. Now select the members tab. You will see something similar to
the following.
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It is important here to make sure the 'Load Balancing Method' is set to Predictive (member)
Step 2: Check which persistence profile is being used by your Virtual Server handling the eBusiness Suite requests
From the BigIp home screen select Local Traffic - Virtual Servers. Choose the Oracle virtual server being used by selecting 'edit'. Make a note
of the 'default persistence profile' used by the virtual server. e.g see below
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Select the default persistence profile that you made note of in step 2. In this case we choose 'cookie'
You will now see a screen 'similar' to the following:
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If you are implementing BigIp for the 1st time please see the referenced deployment guides for step by step instructions for the setup of
BigIp. Use the correct deployment guide along with the referenced 11i or R12 official Oracle notes for guidance. For more information see
Note 727171.1
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REFERENCES
NOTE:380489.1
NOTE:217368.1
NOTE:456906.1
NOTE:727171.1
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