Supermaster architecture

A super master is limited in its functionality and the objects it provides in the Console via its database, as it only consolidates and reports on the data provided by the site masters, which will execute all network management tasks in their part of the organization’s infrastructure. The super master stores the inventory data uploaded at regular intervals by the "normal" master servers at the different locations of the organization, and then may generate reports on these.

Depending on the configuration of the site masters part or all of the following types of inventory data may consolidated in the super master’s database, the data will be uploaded by the site masters right after it was integrated in the local database:

  • Device information (name, IP address, domain name, etc.) from the list of autodiscovered devices
  • all available types of inventory

The super master in itself is completely autonomous, that is, it may create its own configurations for a number of specific objects:

  • objects that are required for reporting: queries, device groups, patch groups and reports
  • device settings such as when a client is lost.

 

 

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