Hierarchy of Administration Servers
Some client companies, for example MSP, may run multiple Administration Servers. It can be inconvenient to administer several separate Administration Servers, so a hierarchy can be applied. Each Administration Server can have several secondary Administration Servers on different nesting levels of the hierarchy. The root Administration Server can only act as a primary Server.
In a hierarchy, a Linux-based Administration Server can work both as a primary Server and as a secondary Server. The primary Linux-based Server can manage both Linux-based and Windows-based secondary Servers. A primary Windows-based Server can manage a secondary Linux-based Server.
A "primary/secondary" configuration for two Administration Servers provides the following options:
- A secondary Administration Server inherits policies, tasks, user roles, and installation packages from the primary Administration Server, thus preventing duplication of settings.
- Selections of devices on the primary Administration Server can include devices from secondary Administration Servers.
- Reports and event selections on the primary Administration Server can contain data (including detailed information) from secondary Administration Servers.
- A primary Administration Server can be used as a source of updates for a secondary Administration Server.
The primary Administration Server only receives data from non-virtual secondary Administration Servers within the scope of the options listed above. This limitation does not apply to virtual Administration Servers, which share the database with their primary Administration Server.
