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Distribution Host (DH)

The DH is responsible for distributing policy deployments, made on the DMS, to endpoints, and for receiving deployment status from endpoints to send to the DMS. To accomplish this task, the DH uses two Policy Model databases:

• DH Writer—responsible for writing data it receives from endpoints to the DMS.

  The name of this PMDB is DHNameWRITER where DHName is the name of the DH, DH__ by default.

• DH Reader—responsible for reading data from the DMS so that endpoints can retrieve it.

  The name of this PMDB is DHName where DHName is the name of the DH, DH__ by default.

By default, the DH is installed on the same computer as the Distribution Server. However, you can also install multiple DH nodes so that each manages a section of your enterprise for load balancing.