Hi,
I need to design the landscape for a future SMP 2.3 (or maybe 3.0) installation.
In the SMP 2.3 landscape design document, SAP recommends the following architecture for Production Environments:
In this landscape, the mobile devices entry point is a load balancer, and then we have the following behaviors depending of the technology:
- Agentry Apps: Load balancer will communicate directly to the SMP Server cluster because relay server doesn't support Agentry Apps protocol
- Sync and HWC Apps: Load balancer will redirect the traffic to the proxy server farm. which is also in the DMZ. And then the proxy will communicate with the SMP Server cluster.
But my point is, what's the added value of this proxy server farm? The mobile devices are already connected to the entry point through the Load Balancer (which can also be a Reverse Proxy) so I don't see why we should increase the complexity of the landscape adding the Proxy Server Farm.