Server Pools

The Satellite Management Server Pools tab displays all HPCA Server Pools that have been created in your environment. Server Pools are groupings of Servers (Core or Satellites) that will be contacted by devices to resolve policy and retrieve data. Servers can be assigned to Server Pools (a maximum of 30 Servers), and Servers and Server Pools are assigned to Locations to enable client devices to contact them.

A Server Pool is used to perform software load balancing of client connections. If a grouping of Servers have equal priority to handle client connections, these Servers can be grouped into a Server Pool, which can then be assigned to a Location. Clients randomly contact Servers in the Server Pool, thus distributing the load across the Servers in the pool. For example, if your environment contains three Satellite servers in the US that should be contacted with equal priority by client devices in a particular Location, these Servers can be grouped into a US Server Pool and then assigned to the Location.

By default, the HPCA Core Server Server Pool containing the HPCA Core server is installed on your system. You cannot delete this Server Pool.

You can use the Server Pools property sheet to view or edit Server Pool properties.

You can use the toolbar buttons on the Server Pools tab to add and remove Server Pools.

Server Pools Toolbar Buttons
Button Description
Refresh Data – To refresh the list of Server Pools.

Show/Hide Filter Input – To show or hide the Filter input area to restrict the display of Server Pools to only those matching user specified criteria.

Create a New Server Pool – To launch the Server Pool Creation Wizard.
Delete the selected Server Pool(s) – To delete selected Server Pools.

The following sections detail what you can do using the Server Pool property sheet and the toolbar buttons on the Server Pools tab:


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