Connecting SAPconsole to a Web Dispatcher rather than directly to an app server

[bryan_cain]

We have a very old SAPConsole set up (telnet) that we use in our warehouses. Currently, the SAPConsole is pointed directly to one of our app servers rather than to our Web Dispatcher for load balancing. We'd like to load balance the warehouse users, but my basis team is concerned that since all the traffic would be coming from a single IP (the server that runs SAPConsole) that the load balancer would direct all traffic to the same node anyway.

I know we should upgrade to ITSMobile (and we've started talking about it) but I'm wondering if we can change this in the short term to make our systems a little more resilient.

Does anyone have experience with this? Is it possible? Or should we just hang on until we can move over to ITSMobile?

Thanks in advance.

Bryan

[isaias_freitas · Accepted solution]

Hello Bryan,

The Web Dispatcher can be used for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS only. It cannot be used for telnet load balancing.

DNS load balancing (mentioned by Juan) might be an option, but I would also suggest to perform tests on a sandbox system.

Regards,

Isaías

[bryan_cain · Accepted solution]

Well, that answers that question. Thank you. (sorry for the delayed response).

[isaias_freitas · Accepted solution]

You're welcome! And no worries 🙂

[Ryan-Crosby]

Hi Bryan,

At my old place we still had SAP console and load balanced it via the message server. Once the SID details were completed in the GUI then the console configuration could utilize that data for opening connections that would be directed to 1 of several nodes.

Regards,

Ryan Crosby

[bryan_cain]

Thanks for this, we'll look into it.

[JPReyes]

Hi Bryan,

Here is my 2 cents,

There is several ways to address this, DNS load balancing using round robin, F5, Web dispatcher, etc...

In any case your question is more about the "stickiness" of the source address, most of the SAP documentations talks about web dispatcher using a cookie to send the requests from the same source to the same app server, having said that this are telnet requests not HTTP ones, you might want to run a simple test in a sandbox. Also I know that F5 and other load balancers have additional options to deal with stickiness of the request.

Regards, JP