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Multiple Servers with Hub to Manage Large Scale Deployments

If you need to manage a large number of clients, in most cases you can do so with a single SUSE Manager Server, tuned appropriately. However, if you need to manage tens of thousands of clients, you might find it easier to use multiple SUSE Manager Servers, in a hub, to manage them.

SUSE Manager Hub helps you manage very large deployments. The typical Hub topology looks like this:

typical hub architecture overview

  • One central SUSE Manager Server, which acts as the Hub Server.

  • One or more additional SUSE Manager Servers, registered to the Hub. This document refers to these additional servers as peripheral servers.

  • Any number of clients registered to the peripheral servers. Some of these clients can act as SUSE Manager Proxies.

To copy contents between servers, you can use Inter-Server Synchronization (ISS). ISS allows you to export data from one server (source) and import it on another (target) server. For more information, see 服务器间同步.

This chapter gives more details about Hub deployment.