Load Balancer set up for JIRA Software Data Center

[Ankita Sharma]

We have installed On Premise JIRA Software Data Center version 7.12.1 and now need to set up Load Balancer.

- Which Load Balancer algorithm to be used. . Round Robin or Ratio (member) Ratio (node)?

- We can use which Health Monitor (icmp/http/https/etc) to check the availability of the node for load balancing?

- Which Port can be used that needs to be opened for access to the Server (http, https, MRDP, etc) or can use 'Any' port? The load balancer will pass the traffic to the desination servers over this port only. 

[Shankar Asam {Appfire}]

Hi Ankita,

Here are my answers to your questions, but please go through below link for more options & information from Atlassian.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/load-balancer-configuration-options-935383760.html

Which Load Balancer algorithm to be used. . Round Robin or Ratio (member) Ratio (node)?

-Round robin is the one mostly used so the requests will be sent to all nodes in the cluster

 We can use which Health Monitor (icmp/http/https/etc) to check the availability of the node for load balancing?

- To monitor and health checks you could use HTTP or TCP modes to check the status of the node. You can also see the same link which I gave you for more info on the node / app status and response code.

Which Port can be used that needs to be opened for access to the Server (http, https, MRDP, etc) or can use 'Any' port? The load balancer will pass the traffic to the desination servers over this port only. 

- I believe the incoming requests will hit your Load balancer first on port 80 or 443 and from there the traffic will go to backend servers on respective ports (like jira listening on 8080). You will need to open 8080 port to talk to JIRA(see server.xml of jira for connector ports). 

Hope this helps

-Shankar