Session persistence ties the requests from one client (ie, in one 'session') to the same back-end server node. It defeats the intelligence of the load-balancing algorithm, which tries to select the fastest, most available node for each request.
In a web session, often it's only necessary to tie some requests to the same server node. For example, you may want to tie requests that begin "/servlet" to a server node, but let Stingray be free to load-balance all other requests (images, static content) as appropriate.
Configure a session persistence class with the desired configuration for your /servlet requests, then use the following request rule:
if( string.startswith( http.getPath(), "/servlet" ) ) {
connection.setPersistenceClass( "servlet persistence" );
}
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