Define Server Farms and Cluster Nodes

Add one or more relay server farms to distribute the workload as needed. A relay server farm expedites computing processes by harnessing the power of multiple back-end server nodes in a particular Unwired Platform cluster. Remove farms or nodes as required.

Prerequisites

Determine environment type and required degree of redundancy:

In a production environment, add multiple relay server farms when a load balancer is used to distribute synchronization requests.
In a development testing environment, configure a single farm with a single relay server to more closely replicate production values.

Task

Repeat these steps to add or remove multiple farms as needed.

Create the relay server farm:
1. Configure these properties:
  - Farm ID – the server farm for which the relay server manages requests. This property is case-sensitive. The configured value must match the value defined for the RSOE or the connection fails.
  - Type – the type of request managed by the relay server: replication based synchronization (RBS) or messaging based synchronization (MBS).
  - (Optional) Description – describes the relay server farm usage.
2. Click +.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to add multiple server farms.
4. To delete a configured farm, select it in the list of configured farms, then click the X button.
Assign the farm to a server node for the type you created:
1. Select an existing farm name you want to assign a server node to:
2. Configure these properties:
  - Node ID – the node string that identifies the backend replication or messaging based cluster. Combine one or more Unwired Servers to create a single server node. This property is case-sensitive. The configured value must match the value defined for the RSOE or the connection fails.
  - Token – the security token used by the server node to authenticate the back-end server connection with relay server. Each node requires a unique token: specify a unique string to a maximum of 2048 characters.
3. Click +.
4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to add multiple server nodes.
5. To delete a configured node, select it in the list of configured farms and click X.
Click Next to review your settings or click Finish to exit the wizard.