Load balancer help setup needed

Good Morning, Steve.

What URL are you using to do the XML POST to the LineRate VIP? Generally, you would want to craft your post to the VIP just the same as you would directly to the server. For example, with your above URL example, you might send the XML POST request to the following URL (presuming you configured your VIP to listen on port 7800):

Essentially the LineRate proxy will then choose 1 of your 2 windows servers to relay the request to. One other thing that you may want to be conscious of here is persistence. If your web service requires authentication or saves any kind of state in the application, you likely will want persistence enabled on the Virtual Server in LineRate. What this does is ensures a given client talks to the same backend server so that he doesn't, for example, make a successful request to authenticate to Server 1 and then get his second request sent to Server 2 who doesn't know he exists. You can read more about this here: Virtual Server Persistence

Hope this helps.

-Andrew