Hello there

 

 I am going to use Pounds product as a Load Balancer but firstly I have some questions so I believe I will find answers here ;)

First of all I am looking for Load Balancer with sticky session feature. In other words my LB will have to load balance new sessions among the few applicatio servers.
The requests within the session should be sticky to the same application server. It seems the pounds supports this feature ("Pound has the ability to keep track of sessions between a client browser and a back-end server")
It seems to me I can use cookies:
Session
            Type    Cookie
            ID      "sess"
            TTL     300
        End
However not sure If I understand it. Can you please flesh this behaviour out ? Who insert the cookies ? Pounds or back end application?
Using a cookie approach does it mean that new session from the same browser will be load balance among all back end servers? I thought
if I use cookies always each session will go to the same back edn server.

How are back ends selected ? I mean how does the pound select back end from a list of active. (round robin, random, by number connections?)

 

Does pound collect any info (stats) such as active clients, active connections, etc in html format ...

Where can I found more info than under http://www.apsis.ch/pound/index_html?

Thank you in advance.

Mariusz