Connecting Agents to a Single Endpoint

The following steps describe how to connect agents to a single server endpoint.

Important: This configuration is the preferred approach for High Availability (HA) in enterprise environments. In certain circumstances, for example where high availability is required but enterprise level support is not, the alternative approach, Connecting Agents to a Series of Server Endpoints, may also be taken.

To connect agents to a single server endpoint:

Install the Deployment Automation server application on n servers for the active-active feature. See Active-active Server Installation. These n servers are used as a cluster with a load balancer.
To make it possible for agents to communicate with each of the server nodes within the cluster, during agent installation the IP or DNS-name of the cluster should be set as the communication host.
In this scenario, the load balancer will choose which of the server nodes communicates with the agent.