Administrator Help information

The load balancing weight factor gives the administrator the ability to modify or weight the load balancing measurement for each communications server. The factor can be different for each server. A load measurement is an integral number between 0 and 100 and is meant to approximate the percentage load on the server (100 being the highest). The weight factor gives the administrator an element in this calculation.

The reason this factor is useful is that in some cases there are other factors that might have an effect on server load that are not taken into account by the Communications Server algorithm. For example, if a communications server is not dedicated to only SNA gateway traffic.

• If the IntranetWare for SAA® 3.0 gateway providing TN3270/TN5250 services is to coexist in a network with other TN server implementations (Communications Server) using SLP for load balancing, the IntranetWare for SAA® 3.0 factor can be adjusted to compensate for differences.

The weight factor allows the administrator to bias the load measurement on that server away from selecting the server or towards selecting the server.