How to avoid using Advertise
What to do if I don't want to use Advertise (multicast): In the VirtualHost receiving the MCPM of httpd.conf don't use any Advertise directive or use: ServerAdvertise Off In mod_cluster-jboss-beans.xml add the addresses and ports of the VirtualHost to the proxyList property and set advertise to false, for example: 10.33.144.3:6666,10.33.144.1:6666 false In server.xml (with JBossweb/Tomcat)