We have an F5 load balancing a pool of 2 Orion additional
websites which both connect to one central NPM poller. The Orion database is on a separate server.
The F5 hosts a certificate and we use https to connect to the website from the
Internet. Everything works fine until
you try to edit a node. For example if I'm at
https://OrionWebServerPoolFQDN/Orion/Nodes/NodeProperties.aspx?Nodes=... and if I make a change then hit either the
SUBMIT or CANCEL button I get an instruction to pull an http page which tries
to open a new session. Since I was already in an https session before I hit
submit or cancel, I cannot open the new http connection. The end result is I have hit the back button
on the browser several times to reconnect with my https session. Usually the
change I tried to make does take effect however this is a big nuisance problem
since I can’t return to the node details page where I started. This issue even occurs with only one server
in the pool and it to be bad a http-redirect programming in the Orion web
application. You can clearly see the
issue in a packet capture.
I had opened Case # 642678 but my ticket was closed with
this response: "As confirmed by our
dev team Orion NPM may have issues on a load balancer. From my investigation,
the issue appears to be present on other web applications as well. I have to close out this case but I can place
a feature request for you to add support for load balancers in Orion."
I don’t know if a feature request was ever opened by the tech support staff so I’ve
opened one here.