Peer Gateways

You can configure up to eight Clearswift Gateways to work together in a Peer group. Any configuration changes from a local Gateway can then be applied to all the Peer Gateways 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
When you peer an Exchange Gateway with an Gateway, you will see features in one that are only supported in the other. For example, the following shows an Exchange Gateway feature appearing in a peered Gateway.

Unsupported features are highlighted in the Gateway user interface.

 

The following table shows features available in a peered Exchange and Email Gateway configuration.

Feature Exchange Gateway Email Gateway
Policy > SpamLogic Settings

✖

✔
Policy > Mail Zero-Hour Malware

✖

✔
System > Exchange Settings ✔ ✖
System > Encryption

✖

✔
System > SMTP Settings > General Settings ✖ ✔
System > SMTP Settings > Advanced Settings ✖ ✔
System > SMTP Settings > Host Access Control ✖ ✔
System > SMTP Settings > Email Address Rewriting ✖ ✔
System > SMTP Settings > Internal Email Servers ✖ ✔

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