Load Balancing

SOLUTIONS

Inventory Manager
Control Center
NSMC

TOPIC

Load-Balanced INSYSTEK services.

DETAILS

INSYSTEK services, including Scheduler, Distribution, and Monitoring, are now all load-balanced and fail-over capable. By installing multiple INSYSTEK services of the same type in your environment, and pointing them at the same database using the service options, queued items specific to that service type will be shared among each installed service equally. At the same time, if one of the services were to face a failure of some kind, the queued tasks would continue to execute normally on the other services of the same type in the environment.

Load-Balancing

INSYSTEK Services distributed over multiple servers can be setup to share the load of scanning the environment, distributing software, or monitoring tasks. Using multiple Scheduler services within an environment with a large number of systems, for example, would improve the amount of time an enterprise scan would take place, as each Scheduler service in the environment would pick up as many scheduler tasks as their thresh hold rate allows and begin to process them. Planning for load-balancing capability should be considered after an understanding of Dynamic and Dedicated services.

Fail-Over

INSYSTEK Services are also fail-over capable. In a distributed INSYSTEK service environment, if one service goes down, another service of the same type would be able to pick up queue items queued up for that specific type of service. As an example, if there are multiple Monitoring services in an environment, and a catastrophic event, such as a hard disk failure, takes place on a system running one of the Monitoring services, the other Monitoring services in the environment would continue to process each monitoring task in place of the Monitoring service that is no longer able to process. Planning for fail-over capability should be considered after an understanding of Dynamic and Dedicated services.

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