[X2Go-User] x2go broker server integration with ballast

[Bengt Giger]

Am 15.10.2014 um 10:13 schrieb Mike Gabriel:

> With our project "X2Go Session Broker" there are indeed some caveats regarding HOMEs on NFS.

We run into another problem, probably. We are evaluating X2Go for use as an access service to our universitary environment. I got a broker environment up and running, but:

Our user base consists of thousands accounts. Only a few of them will probably use the service, but all of them should be able to do so if they wish - without further interaction or configuration. Fluctuation is high, users are added or removed daily. The broker seems to be tightly connected to Postgres, with an Postgres user corresponding to every X2Go user. This is needed to add and remove state information for the sessions of a user. So we would have to develop a synchronization application connecting our identity management to Postgres. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Looking at ballast, could this provide the loadbalancing features we need? This solution would obviously lack the handling of suspended sessions, but we could live without it.

Regards
Bengt