Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C650 Guía Del Usuario
Chapter 8 Centralized Management
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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 7.3 for Email Advanced Configuration Guide
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A. When a machine joins a cluster, all of that machine's clusterable settings
will be inherited from the cluster level. Upon joining a cluster, all locally
configured non-network settings will be lost, overwritten with the settings of
the cluster and any associated groups. (This includes the user/password table;
passwords and users are shared within a cluster).
will be inherited from the cluster level. Upon joining a cluster, all locally
configured non-network settings will be lost, overwritten with the settings of
the cluster and any associated groups. (This includes the user/password table;
passwords and users are shared within a cluster).
Q. I have a clustered machine and I remove it (permanently) from the cluster.
What happens to my settings?
What happens to my settings?
A. When a machine is permanently removed from a cluster, its configuration
hierarchy is “flattened” such that the machine will continue to work the same
as it did when it was part of the cluster. All settings that the machine has been
inheriting will be applied to the machine in the standalone setting.
hierarchy is “flattened” such that the machine will continue to work the same
as it did when it was part of the cluster. All settings that the machine has been
inheriting will be applied to the machine in the standalone setting.
For example, if there is only a cluster-mode Global Unsubscribe table, that
Global Unsubscribe table data will be copied to the machine's local
configuration when the machine is removed from the cluster.
Global Unsubscribe table data will be copied to the machine's local
configuration when the machine is removed from the cluster.
General Questions
Q. Are log files aggregated within centrally managed machines?
A. No. Log files are still retained for each individual machines. IronPort’s
Mail Flow Central software can be used to aggregate mail logs from multiple
machines for the purposes of tracking and reporting.
Mail Flow Central software can be used to aggregate mail logs from multiple
machines for the purposes of tracking and reporting.
Q. How does User Access work?
A. The IronPort appliances share one database for the entire cluster. In
particular, there is only
particular, there is only
admin
account (and password) for the entire cluster.
Q. How should I cluster a data center?
A. Ideally, a data center would be a “group” within a cluster, not its own
cluster. However, if the data centers do not share much between themselves,
you may have better results with separate clusters for each data center.
cluster. However, if the data centers do not share much between themselves,
you may have better results with separate clusters for each data center.
Q. What happens if systems are offline and they reconnect?
A. Systems attempt to synchronize upon reconnecting to the cluster.