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Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms

Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms

Each Breeze Presentation platform in a cluster must be able to access the Breeze database. Because
licensing restrictions do not allow more than one Breeze Presentation platform to access the
Breeze database engine, you must use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for the Breeze database.

The following figure illustrates a cluster with a load balancer and with the Breeze Presentation
platform on three computers.

To set up clustered Breeze Presentation platforms:

Install the Breeze Presentation platform on each computer that will be in the cluster.
For information on installing the Breeze Presentation platform, see the

Macromedia Breeze

Installation Guide. During installation, you use the same license key each time you install the
Breeze Presentation platform.

Set configuration properties in the custom.ini file belonging to one of the Breeze Presentation
platforms in the cluster.
For information on setting configuration properties for the Breeze Presentation platform, see
Chapter 4, “Configuring the Breeze Presentation Platform,” in the

Macromedia Breeze

Installation Guide.
Some of the properties you need to set in the custom.ini configuration file apply to the Breeze
database. For information on these properties and on setting up the Breeze database, see
Chapter 3, “Setting up the Breeze Database,” in the

Macromedia Breeze Installation Guide.

Copy the custom.ini configuration file to the installation folder of all the other Breeze
Presentation platforms in the cluster.
All Breeze Presentation platforms must have identical custom.ini files.

Your Breeze Presentation platforms are now clustered. Before you start one of the Breeze
Presentation platforms, you need to start Microsoft SQL Server.

Load balancer

Breeze
Presentation
platform

Breeze database

(Microsoft SQL Server 2000)