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Active and Standby Policy Engines

When you configure the hub, you can designate individual policy engines as either ‘Active’ or ‘Standby’. During normal operations, the hub only allocates emails to active policy engines, but if one or more active policy engines become unavailable it can automatically transfer processing to standby policy engines. This allows you to ensure that CA DataMinder continues monitoring and processing emails even during a contingency. For example, you may want to install active policy engines in your main office and standby policy engines off-site.

To set up ‘Active’ and ‘Standby’ policy engines, you need to configure the policy engine hub. Specifically, you need to edit the ActivePolicyEngines and StandbyPolicyEngines registry values on the hub host machine.

More information:

Policy Engine Hub Registry Values