For a LB to work properly, it must be the only function in touch with the servers. Then only it can take in stats and optimally route the requests. Here in the m:n scenario, for.ex., disp1 will route to AEM1 and disp2 will try to route to AEM1 which is already handling a req. disp2 has no way of und...

Please have a look at https://cqdump.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/connecting-dispatchers-and-publishers/ written by Joerg Hoh

Please have a look at the Generic List component at http://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/generic-lists.html . You can create a page with this Generic List component which allows us to author a key-value list. In your code, you can do the following.PageManager pageManag...

Please elaborate on what exactly you want. Is it on the best approach to integrate AEM and Site Cat?

The work around is as you have done. But this is still a bug and is being worked upon. 

AFAICT, read only access is not possible. 

There is this Apache Sling Logging Configuration. This is the global configuration set up for the Sling OSGI  LogService implementation. you can change the log level here also.Please refer to http://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/logging.html for more information. But typically it is not...

Since the data store is outside, mongo clustering will not copy over the datastore. You should copy over the datastore to the repository folder in server2. Your config will also have  org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blob.datastore.FileDataStore.cfgpath=./crx-quickstart/repository/datastoreminRecor...

Just to be clear, did you try following the section "Migrating to MongoDB" at this link http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/deploy/upgrade.html#Migrating%20the%20repository%20to%20OAK ?

Manual intervention to a production system could be risky and not many allow that. We can rather store these configs in svn but only giv access to these support guys. Nowadays, a simple script can be written to fetch the correct file and package it and install in prod. This helps versioning as well....