Configuring relay failover
If an BigFix server goes down, whether due to disaster or planned maintenance, the DSA server might be used to find a new server connection. When the disabled server comes back online, its data will automatically be merged with the data on the healthy server.
In order for the failover process to successfully occur set the
DSA server as the secondary relay in client settings using __RelayServer2
for
the top-level relays (or via the console Computer right-click settings
user interface). When a failure on the primary IBM BigFix server
occurs and lower level IBM BigFix relays
are unable to report, they use the secondary IBM BigFix relay
value during normal relay selection process to find and report to
the secondary IBM BigFix server.
Note: The setting
_BESClient_RelaySelect_ResistFailureIntervalSeconds
specified on the client system can have an impact on failover timing.
Its value can range from 0 seconds to 6 hours and it defines how many
seconds the client ignores reporting failures before attempting to
find another parent relay. The default value is 10 minutes. In case
of a failover configuration, ensure that, if defined, _BESClient_RelaySelect_ResistFailureIntervalSeconds
is set to a low value.