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Distribution Server Recommendations

A deployment and configuration distribution (scalability) server helps ensure that deployment and policy configuration operations are carried out in an efficient and timely manner.

Once the CA Server Automation manager is installed, the next step in the rollout of Remote Deployment and Policy Configuration is to consider the number of Distribution Servers.

For Deployment operations, we recommend using one Distribution Server per 2000 target systems for a typical 100-Mb/sec network environment.

Where the SystemEDGE Agent is not being deployed using Remote Deployment (that is, only Policy Configuration is used), this number can reach 3000 systems per Distribution Server.

Important! We recommend performing a test deployment to at least one system for each distribution server before large deployment operations. We recommend deploying all possible packages using the distribution server to verify that there are no failures with the larger scale deployments.