Session Monitoring Software

[Yoeri]

Is there software to monitor user sessions on an IIS web server?

We have a product of ours running on a load-balanced server, and think that sometimes a user connects to the wrong server, with the loss of his session as a result.

Thanks

Yoeri

[aspdaddy]

If you are loadbalancing on IIS4/5 its probably a bad idea to use session variables. I believe this has been fixed in IIS6

[duckhunter]

Without the load balancer providing "sticky" connections to the server you first land on, the user will bounce from server to server and restart sessions each time they land on a different box. There is a fix as aspdaddy says but I prefer my users to stay on the same box during their Session regardless of the IIS6/.NET alternatives.

Check the load balancing software to see if it offers the sticky connections found in many of the packages these days.

Another note. If sticky connections are ON, you don't want a Round Robin distribution method to your servers. It should distributed based on existing # of current users per box distributed evenly. Otherwise, one box may keep getting users while others have more room.