In my earlier weblog on "Troubleshooting Portal Server Nodes using Firefox Browser", I had described how you could utilize the Portal Node ID and edit the cookie information using Firefox Add-Ons to force your request on a particular node of the server instance. I did see some old useful weblog on “How-To Identify the current cluster node and force access to a particular node in SAP EP“ and even that talks about an easy alternate way of accessing a particular Portal server node. But do you know how to find information about all Portal Node ID??? If not, then don’t worry. I will guide you through how to find the Portal Node ID in a Clustered Portal environment. This information can actually be utilized at various numbers of places, as you would see in my future weblogs and technical articles. Where to Look For Cluster Portal Node Information? Login to Portal using Administrator userid/password or userid having a super admin role. . Navigate System Administration -> Support -> Portal Runtime -> Administration Console 
Cluser Administration screen shown above shows the ServerID (which are actually the Node ID). The details also include the Server IP of the machine on which the Portal instance resides. This Server ID can be used to form the Direct Node URLs for a Particular Server node. Although this is included in other weblogs, I would reiterate briefly that Portal node on EP6.0 can be accessed directly using the URL as shown below: http://example.wipro.com/irj/portal;sapj2ee_irj=15583351 Note that number 15583351 represents Server NodeID we want to access. Although, you need to be careful to clear the cache (Watch out for my Technical Article and script on this) and use Firefox cookie add-on or ‘ ‘javascript: document.cookie’ (as described in my earlier weblog) to verify if your request really lands up on the desired node.
Cluser Administration screen shown above shows the ServerID (which are actually the Node ID). The details also include the Server IP of the machine on which the Portal instance resides. This Server ID can be used to form the Direct Node URLs for a Particular Server node. Although this is included in other weblogs, I would reiterate briefly that Portal node on EP6.0 can be accessed directly using the URL as shown below: http://example.wipro.com/irj/portal;sapj2ee_irj=15583351 Note that number 15583351 represents Server NodeID we want to access. Although, you need to be careful to clear the cache (Watch out for my Technical Article and script on this) and use Firefox cookie add-on or ‘ ‘javascript: document.cookie’ (as described in my earlier weblog) to verify if your request really lands up on the desired node.
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