Hello.
Guardium v10 and later got a new functionality called load-balancing that uses Central Manager to balance DB traffic between managed collectors. Does the old method (when we don't use CM to balance) work in Guardium 11.2? I mean the method when we just add ip of collectors to Guardium hosts configuration in S-TAP configuration work.  As far as I remember we could set Guardium to set traffic to all collectors from Guardium hosts list ot send it only to Primary and only in case of fail-over send it to Secondary.
If using CM to balance the traffic what will Guardium do if primary and secondary collectors have different policies installed and load-balance takes place? WIll it apply the primary collector policy to secondary collector of Guardium doesn't check the policies in that case?

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Igor Volkov
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Hi,

CM load balancer does not balance traffic - it is responsible for switching agents between collectors base on they performance and availability.

The manual agent configuration is still available.

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Zbigniew (Zibi) Szmigiero
IBM
Międzyrzecz
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Original Message:
Sent: Sat August 29, 2020 02:18 PM
From: Igor Volkov
Subject: Guardium 11.2 fail-over and load-balancing

Hello.
Guardium v10 and later got a new functionality called load-balancing that uses Central Manager to balance DB traffic between managed collectors. Does the old method (when we don't use CM to balance) work in Guardium 11.2? I mean the method when we just add ip of collectors to Guardium hosts configuration in S-TAP configuration work.  As far as I remember we could set Guardium to set traffic to all collectors from Guardium hosts list ot send it only to Primary and only in case of fail-over send it to Secondary.
If using CM to balance the traffic what will Guardium do if primary and secondary collectors have different policies installed and load-balance takes place? WIll it apply the primary collector policy to secondary collector of Guardium doesn't check the policies in that case?

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Igor Volkov
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