For production environments, it is recommended to use the active-active approach to distribute the processing load of agent communication. This lets the agents communicate across multiple servers when many agents are communicating at once, rather than relying on the processing of a single server, providing high server availability and therefore faster response times.
Figure 1. High-availability Server Configuration
The following describes how to configure two different active-active approaches:
- Agents connect to a single endpoint that uses round-robin DNS or an agent relay (Recommended, truly scalable method). See Connecting Agents to a Single Endpoint.
- Agents connected to a series of endpoints (Not recommended for large, scalable installations. This may be adequate for smaller or test installations). See Connecting Agents to a Series of Server Endpoints.