3.0 Proxy as a Load Balancer

To improve the scalability and the performance of a directory infrastructure, in stressful scenarios, Novell's LDAP Proxy 1.0 could be configured to act as a load balancer. As a load balancer, the LDAP Proxy 1.0 distributes the load among configured back-end group of servers. The distribution is governed by the algorithm configured by the user. In general, a connection based round robin algorithm based on priority is used to distribute the load. The LDAP Proxy 1.0 could also route requests based on the namespace.