Distributed environment settings

Distributed environment settings

Use this page to specify a type for saving a session in a distributed environment. To view this console page at the web container level, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name > Session management > Distributed environment settings.
Note that the distributed environment settings can be overridden at the application level.

Distributed sessions

Type of distributed environment to be used for saving sessions.

Information Value
None The session management facility discards the session data when the server shuts down.
Database The session management facility stores session information in the data source specified by the data source connection settings. Click Database to change these data source settings.
Memory-to-memory replication The session management facility stores the session information in a data source in memory. The session information is copied to other session management facilities for failure recovery. Click Memory-to-memory replication to change these data source settings.

Related concepts

Distributed sessions

Related tasks

Configure session management by level
Configure memory-to-memory replication for the peer-to-peer mode (default memory-to-memory replication)
Configure memory-to-memory replication for the client/server mode

Information	Value
None	The session management facility discards the session data when the server shuts down.
Database	The session management facility stores session information in the data source specified by the data source connection settings. Click Database to change these data source settings.
Memory-to-memory replication	The session management facility stores the session information in a data source in memory. The session information is copied to other session management facilities for failure recovery. Click Memory-to-memory replication to change these data source settings.