Server Settings Flashcards
What does the User Policies (Database Mirroring) setting do?
It makes it so that the Agent Handler queries database tables populated by the LDAP sync task to look up information about users, rather than querying the registered LDAP server
What are the benefits of Database Mirroring?
Increased efficiency on the Agent Handlers. Database queries return much faster than LDAP lookups. The result is less time to process agent-server communication requests.
Decreased load on the LDAP servers. The LDAP sync task queries the LDAP Server using the information stored in the database. This query is done rather than each Agent Handler querying the LDAP server if the information is not currently in the local LDAP cache on the Agent Handler.
Agent Handlers no longer need ports opened up to LDAP servers because they can pull the LDAP information they need from the database. This feature is especially useful if the Agent Handler is in a DMZ.
What is the only known downside of Database Mirroring>
A delay in successful lookups for newly added users associated with user-based policies.
If a new user was added to a group associated with a user-based policy, that user-based policy lookup fails until the LDAP sync task runs and adds that user’s information to the database.
