How to properly configure for load balanced LDAPS servers.
I've got an application that's using WLS 12.1.3 and Java 1.7 u80. It's being configured for LDAPS authentication, as well as still keeping the default authenticator. (both set to sufficient, LDAP is first in list, default is second)
The The LDAP authenticator is actually is pointing to a load balancer, which is doing TCP/IP passthrough to 2 LDAP servers.
The issue I'm seeing is:
On startup, all connections from WLS are getting directed to only one of the LDAP servers. (connection pool setting is still default of 6)
"Randomly", when users are trying to log in to our app, they'll get an 'invalid username/password' error (even though they're typing correct values).. so most of the time they can log in successfully, but not always.