Failover Support for Clustered Services
There are two mechanisms through which WebLogic can detect server failures in a cluster:
Monitoring IP socket connections to a peer server
Sending and receiving heartbeat messages
Failure Detection Using IP Sockets Between Peer Server Instances
When a server connects to one of its peers in a cluster through an IP socket, WebLogic Server monitors errors on that socket. Should there be an unexpected closure, the peer server is marked as failed and all of its associated services are removed from the cluster-wide JNDI naming tree.
Failure Detection Using Regular Server Heartbeat Messages
If the clustered server instances are not using open sockets for peer-to-peer communication, failed servers can still be detected ...
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