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Alternative Import Policy Configurations

You can deploy a simpler Import Policy configuration. However, these are less flexible in terms of data processing capacity. For example, you can deploy two Import Policy servers running in direct mode (each instance of Event Import passes events directly to a single local policy engine), but this configuration does not allow you to add extra policy engines if NBA data volumes increase.

Similarly, you can deploy a single Import Policy server hosting two instances of the Event Import service (one to import files and the other to import emails). Both instances feed imported items to the same local policy engine for processing. However, because all events imported from the NBA must be processed by a single policy engine, this significantly restricts ingest rates. Nevertheless, this configuration may be appropriate for testing purposes.