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Hosts tab (--appserv)

Objects with this attribute

Object Manager

Attribute name	Usage
Hosts tab	Drop objects into the box.

Command line

Command option	Usage
`--appserv object...`	Replace `object` with the full TFN name of an object. For example, `".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=IT/cn=london"`.

Description

This attribute defines the application servers that can run the application. The Secure Global Desktop server uses application server load balancing to determine which application server to use. Each application server is stored as a reference to the object, so a particular object may appear on many Hosts tabs. (If an object is moved or renamed later, all references to it are automatically updated.)

If a group is added to a Hosts tab, the group's members (and not the group) are used for application server load balancing.

If you don't specify any hosts, the application may run on any Secure Global Desktop server in the array that supports that type of application.

On the command line, make sure you quote any object names containing spaces.

Examples

--appserv ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=IT/cn=geneva"
          ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/cn=prague"

Adds geneva and prague as application servers for an application.

Related topics
Introducing application server load balancing Host object Group object The Secure Global Desktop datastore and Tarantella Federated Naming