Before Opening
- Before Opening a Clustering Ticket
 - Before Opening a Document Library Ticket
 - Before Opening a LAR/Staging Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay API Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Performance Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Sync Ticket
 - Before Opening an Accessibility Ticket
 - Before Opening an Activation Key Ticket
 - Before Opening an Authentication Ticket
 - Before Opening an Upgrade Ticket
 - Before Opening a Portal Deployment Ticket
 - Before Opening a Search/Indexing ticket
 - Before Opening a Security Ticket
 - Before Opening a Shutdown/Inoperable System Ticket
 - Before opening a ticket related to VPN on Liferay PaaS
 - Before Opening a User Interface (UI) Ticket
 - Before Opening a Web Content Management Ticket
 
Before Opening a Clustering Ticket
This article provides a short checklist of questions to ask and steps to take before opening a clustering ticket in Help Center. By taking a moment to go through this checklist before opening a Help Center request, you ensure the fastest possible resolution for your particular issue.
Resolution
For each ticket, please attach your portal-ext.properties file, as well as the output of the patching-tool support-info command specific to the environment.
For clustering tickets specifically, please work through the following checklist and include the resulting information when you create a Help Center ticket.
Users Working on Liferay DXP
- Are you using Multicast or Unicast?
 - Have you followed the basic clustering instructions provided in our Knowledge Base? 
                
- Installing Liferay DXP in a Clustered Environment
 - Liferay DXP Clustering Note: For users familiar with Portal, but now working on DXP, there is a noticeable difference in how clustering is configured. Be sure to check the Unicast over TCP section, specifically step 3.
 
 - Do you have a cluster license?
 - Provide us with the complete portal-ext.properties file from all nodes. 
                
- Do you have cluster.link.enabled=true in your portal-ext.properties?
 
 - Our main objective will be to help troubleshoot a basic cluster of your Liferay DXP environment.
 - *Have you tried setting up Unicast clustering?
 
Users Working on Liferay Portal
- Are you using Multicast or Unicast?
 - Have you followed the basic clustering instructions provided in our Knowledge Base?
 - Do you have a cluster license?
 - Have you installed the Ehcache plugin? 
                
- Verify it is the correct version for this portal.
 - If caching has been customized, please provide the XML files.
 
 - Provide us with the complete portal-ext.properties file from all nodes. 
                
- Do you have cluster.link.enabled=true in your portal-ext.properties?
 
 - Our main objective will be to help troubleshoot a basic cluster of your Liferay Portal environment.
 - *Have you tried setting up Unicast clustering?
 
*Please Note: By default, the Liferay platform is tailored for enabling Multicast clustering. Yet, for some users whose environment is not setup to handle Multicast communication—even with Multicast clustering enabled—clustering may not work properly. In this case, we suggest setting up your Liferay cluster using the Unicast option.