Internet Cluster Manager "ICM Hostname" completely ignored

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Subject: Internet Cluster Manager "ICM Hostname" completely ignored

Feedback Type: Problem

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: Windows - 64 bit

Release: 8.5

Reproducible: Always

Hello,

we are setting up a domino cluster made by 2 node.
Each node is configured as following:
- 3 notes ports (TCPIP, CLUSTER, ICM) each with its own ip address defined in notes.ini
- Both HTTP and ICM task running at the same time
- ICM uses ICM Notes port
- ICM Hostname is set to cluster.domain.com
- HTTP is set up to bind to hostname (server1.domain.com on first node and server2.domain.com on second node)

The DNS is set up so that cluster.domain.com is a round robin entry that points to the 2 ip addresses of the ICM port

Problem:
In the browser, we type cluster.domain.com. We hit one of the ICM running in the cluster.
The browser is now redirected to server1.domain.com (this is already bad)
Even worse, the links in the pages served by server1.domain.com all points to server1.domain.com and not (As I suppose they should) to cluster.domain.com

So all in all my question is. What is the field ICM Hostname used for and how does ICM need to be setup to ensure that all http request (including the address in the browser) always point to the ICMs (cluster.domain.com)

For what I have seen so far, HTTP server never uses the value specified in the ICM Hostname. It simply generates urls based to the value of Internet protocols->HTTP->Hostname(s)

I have already tested a scenario where ICM is running outside the cluster. It works fine, but again, here the trick is the DNS cluster.domain.com points to ICM and that both HTTP nodes are setup with hostname=cluster.domain.com (with binding disabled)

Thanks in adavance for any help

Feedback number WEBB7VBFS8 created by ~Mary Umfreecheketsi on 08/27/2009

Status: Open
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