Active RMA Management from multiple hosts

meppyman · Post by **meppyman** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:00 pm

I have multiple Internet connections for load balance and failover, this means that I may need to manage the remote RMAs from different hosts/IPs. Is it possible to specify multiple Hosts or IPs in the Active RMA settings?

Currently I have to remote into each server and manually change the host, or wait for a DNS failover to propagate.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:29 pm

Sorry, this is impossible for Active RMA. It must connect to some specific system.

Regards
Alex

meppyman · Post by **meppyman** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:32 pm

I understand that from the monitoring aspect, but perhaps form a management/administration it could allow more than one host? That way I can remotely change the host it is connecting to for monitoring if required.

Perhaps I also need to request a feature for active rma trying a different host if the main host is down? Although I can probably manage it via DNS failover at the router instead.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:37 pm

I understand that from the monitoring aspect, but perhaps form a management/administration it could allow more than one host? That way I can remotely change the host it is connecting to for monitoring if required.

H'm, I don't like this idea

In such case RMA will waste time and resources constantly trying to connect to systems that is not in use...
Can't you use Passive RMA?

Perhaps I also need to request a feature for active rma trying a different host if the main host is down? Although I can probably manage it via DNS failover at the router instead.

Not sure we will do this...

Regards
Alex

meppyman · Post by **meppyman** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:29 pm

OK I was thinking about it listening but of course being active it is not listening to incoming ports, my bad.

Could use Passive but then I am back to modifying router/firewall rules at each client site.

I will just use DNS failover, thanks for the quick responses!

meppyman · Post by **meppyman** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:42 pm

Can I run two active RMAs on the one server, one as a backup that has the alternative host? I not there is a backup or load balance option in the RMA manager.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:58 pm

Yes, you may start 2 copies of the agent. Just place them into different folders and use different settings.

Regards
Alex