isCOBOL Load Balancer isCOBOL Evolve includes a load balancing feature to distribute multiple client connections on different servers. Once the isCOBOL Load Balancer is started, it waits for connections from isCOBOL Clients and when a connection request is performed, it evaluates the best server for satisfying the request, then it supplies the address of that server to the isCOBOL Client. From this moment, the isCOBOL Client communicates with the isCOBOL Server directly and the connection between the isCOBOL Client and the isCOBOL Load Balancer is closed, therefore shutting down the isCOBOL Load Balancer doesn't close the current connections. The destination isCOBOL Servers are not started by the Load Balancer, they must be started separately. The startup order is not relevant. This means you can start the isCOBOL Load Balancer before or after the isCOBOL Servers.
