Centralized Management
Centralized Management¶
Each instance of the Forwarder registers with the Dashboard server or the Arbitrator server configured as the main server.
The registration creates a record in the central database and enables the server to display information about all of the installed Forwarder instances.
Once a minute, each Forwarder sends a keep alive message to the server, thus maintaining its status.
It will also periodically check to see if the profile assigned to it has changed. If so then and if it will download and replace itself with the updated version.
Note
The AutoUpdate feature needs to be enabled.
Centralized management allows you to configure one or multiple profiles, upload it to a central repository, and distribute it to multiple instances of the Forwarder without touching the actual server it’s running on.
