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Enterprise Console and Relay, High Availibilty

CRIPete

Hi

We currently have a management server, with relay server for external clients. However we are building a second data centre and need to work out the best way managing sophos if the first site gets taken offline.

It looks like the only solution is to virtualize the servers and replicate them to the second site. The questions are:-

  1. Is this really the best way of managing this 
  2. Are we going to run into problems in the second site when we bring up the servers. As the IP addresses on the new site will be different are we going to have issues with communication between the clients relay and management server. 

Thanks

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    Hello CRIPete,

    with the last server migration we started using just alias FQDNs in mrinit.conf to be more flexible in the future and didn't see any issues. Please note that there is an MRParentAddress and a ParentRouterAddress. in mrinit.conf. These are used by RMS to determine its Router-type by comparing the specified addresses with the respective local values. If there is a match in MRParentAddress it's server (i.e. the management server), else if there is a match in ParentRouterAddress it's message relay, otherwise (there is no match) it's Endpoint, thus you have to make sure that server and relays correctly recognize of the "addresses" as their own.

    Christian

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    Hello CRIPete,

    with the last server migration we started using just alias FQDNs in mrinit.conf to be more flexible in the future and didn't see any issues. Please note that there is an MRParentAddress and a ParentRouterAddress. in mrinit.conf. These are used by RMS to determine its Router-type by comparing the specified addresses with the respective local values. If there is a match in MRParentAddress it's server (i.e. the management server), else if there is a match in ParentRouterAddress it's message relay, otherwise (there is no match) it's Endpoint, thus you have to make sure that server and relays correctly recognize of the "addresses" as their own.

    Christian

    :50168
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