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Federation Manager Guide › Load Balancing Support for Federation Manager › How to Configure Load Balancing › Configure the Load Balancer

Configure the Load Balancer

Configure the load balancer to work in a network with Federation Manager. Use the load balancer host and port to redirect a user who requests a resource that resides on the Federation Manager system. Use of the load balancer host and port applies to all resources on the Federation Manager system.

Note: This procedure assumes that the load balancer administrator knows how to set up the system in the deployment.

Follow these steps:

  1. Configure the load balancer to map IP addresses and host names for the federation deployment.
  2. Configure the load balancer for the deployment, making sure to pass the following URLs through to the Federation Manager systems:

    These URLs enable the load balancer to balance traffic between the federation systems.

  3. (Optional) Configure the load balancer to handle SSL traffic.

    If the load balancer is SSL-enabled, all federation traffic comes in to the load balancer over SSL. However, the load balancer sends the traffic to the Federation Manager systems over a non-SSL (HTTP) connection.

The load balancer is now configured to work with Federation Manager systems.