Multihomed machines

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by mynameisbear91)

Is there a way to specify which interface BigFix should use on a multihomed machine? I have a few servers using hardware-based redundancy (Neverfail,) and BigFix wants to use the shared IP. I want BigFix to use the management IP (unique to each server) so that even when the shared IP is being used by the active server, the things that BigFix does can still be done on the passive server, via the management IP.

Thanks,

Conrad

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hi Conrad,

It’s not possible to control which interface is used by BES on a multihomed machine that I’m aware of. The OS is responsible for deciding which interface should be used for a network request and decision is made below the application level.

It might be possible to specify at the OS level how to handle BES traffic, anyone know of a way to do this?

Are there other applications that allow you to control traffic at this level that you are using? I’m wondering if there is a way to build the capability into our product using some other API.

Tyler

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Conrad,

Are you asking about the BigFix Agent or BigFix Relays? Tyler’s answer was specific to BigFix Agents and the answer would be different for BigFix Relays.

Ben

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(imported comment written by mynameisbear91)

Agents, specifically. I’ll see what I can do to solve this issue, I’m considering abandoning that particular high availability solution anyway (we’re looking into VMWare and clustering at the application level.)

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

I have a user asking if a relay is multi-homed. Are they any issues?

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(imported comment written by mcalvi91)

for the agent, you need to specify routes to the BF server and various agents in order to force it to use a specific NIC.