Management Station Clusters

A Management Station cluster consists of a Management Station appliance and all the appliances that you manage from it.

To create a cluster on one appliance, add another appliance under the Management Station (see Creating a Management Station Cluster). This automatically converts the first appliance into a Management Station that now manages the second appliance, plus any other appliances you later add to the cluster.

Once added to a cluster, you can manage an appliance individually from the Management Station by setting the appliance as the Current Appliance. See Designating a Management Station Appliance as Current.

Note: If the Super admin user is disabled, any user who has appropriate admin rights can access or add remote appliances to a cluster.
Warning:
  • Starting with Release 5.3, all users, including 'admin', must explicitly be given access to each of the remote appliances for users to have access to the data on the remote appliances.
  • Access appliances using the appliances tab of the User Edit page. The Appliances tab is displayed only when an appliance is a Management Station.
  • After upgrade, if a report is not showing the same data as before it means the user does not have access to the appliance(s) the report refers to. There will be no indication (in the GUI or reports) that data from inaccessible appliances is missing.