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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 Multi-Linux Manager Server, tuned appropriately.

However, if you need to manage tens of thousands of clients, you might find it easier to use one of the following mechanisms:

  • Inter-Server Sunchronization (ISS)

  • SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Hub

ISS is based on exporting data from one server (source) and importing it on another (target) server. For more information, see Inter-Server Synchronization - Version 2.

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

typical hub architecture overview

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

  • One or more additional SUSE Multi-Linux 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 Multi-Linux Manager Proxies.

This chapter gives more details about Hub deployment.