Peer Gateways
You can configure up to eight Gateway products to form a peer group. These Peer Gateways work together in the group. Any configuration changes from a local Gateway can then be applied to all the peers at the same time.
Peer Gateways can provide redundancy in the event of a failure, and can share the processing load.
From the local Gateway, you can manage peers in the following ways:
- Create a security policy, and apply it to all Peer Gateways
- Monitor the status of Peer Gateways
- Run consolidated reports throughout the Peer Group
- Manage held and queued messages for all Gateways, for example analyze, release and delete held messages
- Track messages across Peer Gateways
- Consolidate PMM messages for all Peer Gateways in the group. Users then receive a single PMM digest for messages held in PMM areas on all Gateways in the group
- Consolidate report information between peers. You can manage reports from any peer in the group, and create custom reports that include report data from the local peer only, all peers in the group, or any combination of peers in the group
Web user interface for Peer Gateways
When you peer Secure Email Gateway with other types of Gateways, you will see features in one that are only supported in the other. For example:
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If Secure Email Gateway and Secure Exchange Gateway are peered, Exchange Server settings that are only available to Secure Exchange Gateway (when used independently) are displayed under the peered Secure Email Gateway's user interface.
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If Secure Email Gateway and Secure Web Gateway are peered, you can configure each Gateway from a single Policy menu. Although HTTPS Policy settings are only available to Secure Web Gateway (when used independently), you can configure it from the Policy menu on Secure Email Gateway. You can also configure Policy References that are exclusive to either Secure Email Gateway or Secure Web Gateway from a single Policy menu.
In case the feature displayed under a peered Gateway's user interface is not applicable to that particular peer, a message indicating this is displayed. For example:
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If Secure Email Gateway and Secure Exchange Gateway are peered, you will see SpamLogic Settings on your Secure Exchange Gateway's user interface along with a note, informing that those settings will not apply to the Exchange Gateway.
Configure Peer Gateways
The Peer Gateways page enables you to configure and manage the Gateways in a peer group.
Add a peer
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Navigate to System > Configuration > Peer Gateways. The Peer Gateways page is displayed.
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In the Peer Gateways panel, Click
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In the Choose Peer Type dialog, select a peer type and click Add. Another dialog for the selected type is displayed.
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In the dialog, enter Name, Hostname/IP Address and 'Admin' user password, and click Test. If the test result is successful, click Add.
Edit a peer
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Navigate to System > Configuration > Peer Gateways. The Peer Gateways page is displayed.
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In the Peer Gateways panel, select a peer and click
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In the Update Existing Peer dialog, edit the details as required and click Test. If the test is successful, click Update.
Delete a peer
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Navigate to System > Configuration > Peer Gateways. The Peer Gateways page is displayed.
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In the Peer Gateways panel, select a peer and click
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Click Yes in the Confirm Delete dialog to confirm the removal.
Apply a configuration to peers
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Click Apply Configuration in the Changes Made panel on the user interface, or navigate to System > Configuration > Apply Configuration.
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On the Apply Configuration Now page, provide information about the change.
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Select the peer(s) to which the new configuration needs to be applied.
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Select the configuration elements to apply.
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Click Apply Now. The Health page is displayed, showing the progress of the configuration application process on the Peer Status tab.
When the process has finished, the Peer Status tab on the Health page is displayed, showing the details of the configuration application process.