config file of admin server

[deepa karkala]

I have 4 managed servers6.1 in 4 different machines. They are all in cluster. When I saw the config file of admin, each application is targeted to server1,server2,server3, server4.
But cluster name is not there in the target list.
Since the managed servers are running in the cluster and the applications are not targeted to the cluster (they are targeted to the individual server), is there any performance issue or inconsistency issue ? But as of now applications are running fine.
I don't know what is the affect if the applications are targeted to the individual servers and not to the cluster in the admin config.xml.
In the local config.xml of each managed server, the applications are targeted to the respective server but I think these local config.xml files are not at all referred to by the managed servers when they run in the cluster (as per BEA admin manual).
I appreciate if anyone can suggest me whether I have to do changes in config file of admin.

[Karthik Guru]

uhhm, actually my admin config.xml has the cluster as the target and not the managed servers
as the target

[Venkatraman Balasubramanian]

It is recommended to have the components targeted to the cluster, unless the servers participating in the cluster aren't identical.
This is just a maintenance issue. If a new server (an identical image to other servers) gets added to the cluster, the deployment properties of the applications/components need not be changed.

[deepa karkala]

thank you Venkatraman for clarifying my question.
regards,
jyothi