Taking advantage of load balancing

Load balancing at logon increases the efficiency of defined workgroups by:

Starting the connector with the load balancing feature initiates communication with the message server specified by the Hostname property. The message server then finds the application server with the least load. Once this application server is determined, the message server routes all future RFC communication with the connector through this one application server. The connector is considered as one dialog user with the message server.

The load balancing feature works best in an SAP environment where the connector processes low volumes and the number of users is large. For high volumes consider connecting directly to one of your larger application servers.

For information on configuring the connector for load balancing, see the description of the following connector properties:

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