Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Creating routing policies for application editions
Update your routing rules after you activate an application to ensure that the on demand router can route requests to the appropriate application edition.
Before you begin
Activate your edition. See Activating concurrent editions or Activating an edition for more information.
About this task
A routing policy is stored as part of the configuration metadata for an application. With a routing policy, you can express rules that instruct an on demand router (ODR) to send particular application requests to one edition or another based on a set of criteria. You can use various criteria that specify which requests are sent to a particular application edition. Use this process to send requests from certain users to one edition and requests from other users to another edition.
Procedure
- Navigate to the routing policies for the application. Click Applications > Enterprise applications > application_name or Applications > All applications > application_name. Click the Routing policies tab. For example, select the my_application application.
- Expand Work classes for HTTP requests. Because no routing rules are specified, all requests are routed to the edition that is displayed on this page. For example, all requests are routed to application edition, my_application-edition2.0.
- Click Rule builder.
- From the rule list, select a rule. For example, select Client host (clienthost), and click Add.
- Select criteria for the rule. For example, select an operator of Equals (=) and type a value of your client host name. Click OK.
- Click OKagain.
- Expand Work classes for HTTP requests.
- Set the action associated with the new rule. For example, requests from the host route to edition, my_application-edition1.0. Select the corresponding action from the Then list, and click Apply to save the rule.
- From the top of the Routing policies tab, click Apply.
- Save the changes to the configuration repository and synchronize the nodes.
What to do next
If you are routing to multiple editions of the same application, you can validate your new application edition before moving to the new edition. See Validating an edition
Next topic
Validating an edition
Related concepts
Application edition manager concepts
Related tasks
Installing an edition
Rollout an edition
Rollback an edition
Activating concurrent editions
Related reference
Routing and service policies
Administrative roles and privileges