Relays and automatic relay select

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(imported topic written by mcalvi91)

If i designate a system as a relay and set it to Relay Auto select does it change the behavior of the auto select algorithm?

The systems in question have 2 relays per subnet (one for backup as they are all workstations). Both relays have auto select turned on and choose their relay as the Main BES server.

One of the two relays has a TTL of 2 in the icmp controls for relay selection while the other does not have anything set. So i can see where one of the relays would be able to goto the main server. The other one should find the other local relay correct?

Also shouldn’t the first one (without the TTL set) find the nearest upstream relay? It is 3 hops away (see below).

C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert 10.208.1.92

Tracing route to c-497478

http://10.208.1.92

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.208.152.1

2 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 10.208.254.25

3 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms c-497478

http://10.208.1.92

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hi mcalvi,

The BES Relays do not use automatic relay selection at all, even if you set the BES Client to use automatic relay selection. However, BES Relays will use manual relay selection with the same logic that BES Clients use manual relay selection. So, you can assign a primary and secondary relay to a BES Relay and expect that BES Relay to use the primary unless it isn’t available. If no primary/secondary BES Relay is supplied, the BES Relay defaults to using the main BES Server.