At any given time, some servers within a Cluster Edition environment are usually more loaded with work than others. When a client application attempts to connect to a busy server, the login redirection feature helps balance the load of the servers by allowing the server to redirect the client connection to less busy servers within the cluster. The login redirection occurs during the login sequence and the client application does not receive notification that it was redirected. Login redirection is enabled automatically when a client application connects to a server that supports this feature.
When a client application connects to a server that
is configured to redirect clients, the login time may increase because
the login process is restarted whenever a client connection is redirected
to another server.
