Use the server affinity provider to establish an affinity to a particular backend server for certain operations.

The following provider configurations and server affinity methods are available in the PingDirectoryProxy server:

Client connection Server Affinity
Requests from the same client connection consistently route to the same backend server.
Client IP address Server Affinity
All requests coming from the same client system consistently route to the same backend server.
Bind DN Server Affinity
All requests from the same user consistently route to the same backend server.

For information about configuring server affinity, see Configuring server affinity.