Configuring Multistream mode

Multistream mode enables data streaming to the primary appliance and five additional multiple connected Guardium appliances.

About this task

In Multistream mode, you need to configure and activate the policy only for the primary appliance you specify with parameter APPLIANCE_SERVER. If a connection outage occurs and connectivity is successfully established with a failover appliance specified by APPLIANCE_SERVER_n, the policy pushed by the primary appliance continues to be the active policy.

Note: In Hot Failover and Multistream, and Mirroring mode, you need to configure and activate the policy only for the primary appliance.

Procedure

  1. Specify the IP address or hostname of the primary appliance server using keyword APPLIANCE_SERVER.
  2. Set the value of parameter APPLIANCE_SERVER_LIST to MULTI_STREAM.
  3. Specify the number of failover appliances using keyword APPLIANCE_SERVER_n where n=1-5
  4. To prevent data loss, define spill areas using keyword OUTAGE_SPILLAREA_SIZE().

Example

Example Multistream configuration:

APPLIANCE_SERVER(192.168.2.100)
APPLIANCE_SERVER_LIST(MULTI_STREAM)
APPLIANCE_SERVER_1(192.168.2.101)
APPLIANCE_SERVER_2(192.168.2.102)
OUTAGE_SPILLAREA_SIZE(15)