Hi Muhammad,
Suggestions-
if you have many collectors and many staps in your environment, then go with the ELB method.
if the environment size is manageable individually- then go with the load balancing method via S-TAP:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/gdp/12.x?topic=parameters-linux-unix-general
search for the parameter: participate_in_load_balancing:
Controls S-TAP load balancing (not enterprise load balancing) to Guardium systems. Valid values:
- 0: No load balancing.
- 1: Load balancing. Traffic is balanced between the primary and secondary servers, which are defined in the SQLGuard section.
- 2: Redundancy. Fully mirrored S-TAP sends all traffic to all primary and secondary servers, which are defined in the SQLGuard section.
- 3: Hardware load balancing. Guardium uses a load balancer such as F5 or Cisco. S-TAP sends the traffic to the load balancer, which forwards it to one of the collectors in the pool.
- 4:S-TAP is configured for multi-threading. Set NUM_MAIN_THREAD from 0 to 10.
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Sachin Marawar
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed May 21, 2025 07:57 AM
From: Muhammad Faidhan
Subject: Need guidence regarding the Load Balancing between IBM Security Guardium's collector
Hey Family,
Hopefully everyone will be in good health, how could we manage the load balancing technique between 3 different collectors?
if anyone share the architectural representation or document?
you could email me as well at: muhammad.faidhan@arwentech.com
Regards
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Muhammad Faidhan
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