STAS with AD / Collector Failover

Question

Hi, 
 we are running STAS with Multiple Domain-Controllers. One DC runs the Suite (Agent & Controller) and the others are running as agents. How do i configure one of the agents as a failover collector? 
 If the DC with collector service running gets an failure an other should be serving the collector service an deliver data to the SF.

Aditya Patel · Answer

HI Christian, 
 The STAS Suite, which contains both Colletor and Agent is used to collect the Events on your AD server and would push the request to your UTM . This would no act as a Load balancing or Load Failover . If you have multiple Ad servers then you would need to install the suite in all of them, and your AD server should be configured as Failover in such scenario. 
 In such case, if the AD server which was primary failed, then your Events would land on the secondary server and would Sync with UTM.

sachingurung · Answer

Hi Christian, 
 If the STAS Suite is installed on the primary collector and the STAS Agent is installed on the secondary collector then the STAS will not do Load Balance it will just fetch and forward the auth request from secondary to primary AD. 
 Alongside, if you install the STAS Suite on both the Domain Controllers and add them in different collector groups then this will make the XG query to both the collectors at the same time and handle failover. 
 Hope that helps.