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What is distributed Session Management?
Distributed Session Management In order to address scalability and to provide a shared data storage for sessions that can be accessible from any individual web server, you can abstract the HTTP sessions from the web servers themselves.
How do you manage sessions in distributed environment?
There are several solutions:
- configure the load balancer to be sticky: i.e. requests belonging to the same session would always go to the same VM.
- configure the servers to use persistent sessions.
- configure the servers in a cluster, and to distribute/replicate the sessions on all the nodes of the cluster.
What is Session Management in WebSphere application server?
The WebSphere session management component is responsible for managing sessions, providing storage for session data, allocating session IDs that identify a specific session, and tracking the session ID associated with each client request through the use of cookies or URL rewriting techniques.
Can be used as a tool for persistent session management?
Sticky sessions(AWS) cab be used as a tool for persistent session management.
How are distributed session management in an email server?
In a distributed session management solution, each IdP and application maintains a local copy of a replicated session database. The session record is then automatically replicated to the local session database of each application. During SSO, the IdP then sends a token with the session ID to the application.
What is memory to memory replication WebSphere application server?
Memory-to-memory session replication is the session replication to another WebSphere® Application Server. In this mode, sessions can replicate to one or more Application Servers to address HTTP Session single point of failure (SPOF).
What is session persistence in WebSphere application server?
Configuring WebSphere Application Server HTTP session persistence to a data grid. You can configure your WebSphere® Application Server application to persist sessions to a data grid. This data grid can be in an embedded container server that runs within WebSphere Application Server, or it can be in a remote data grid.