Distributed session cache overview

The distributed session cache, maintains session state in clustered server environments.

Failover cookies and the distributed session cache are alternate solutions to the same challenge of maintaining session state in clustered server environments. See also Failover solutions.

The distributed session cache replaces the session management server solution that was available in earlier releases of IBM Security Access Manager.

• The failover environment
  
• The distributed session cache
  
• Failover for the distributed session cache
  
• Replica sets
  
• Distributed session cache process flow
  
• Sharing sessions across multiple DNS domains
  
• Advantages of using the distributed session cache to maintain session state
  
• Migrate from a Session Management Server (SMS) environment
  

Parent topic: Distributed session cache