Hi everyone -
environment is operating at SEP 12 RU6 MP2 . We have several site offices having 500 to 600 workstations over 20 subnets in each branch office. We are planning to have a GUP at the branch office to reduce the load on the WAN which connects our head office with the branch office. Due to infrastructure limitations, we will be able to use only one server as a GUP at each branch office.
My idea is to create a LiveUpdate Policy for all groups. The Policy will have Multiple GUP and Explicit GUP option enabled. Multiple GUP option will have rule sets that will define the IPs of all the GUPs at the branch offices.
The Explicit GUP list will map all subnets in each branch office with the GUP available in that location. This way , my guess is the clients at the branch office will be able to communicate across subnet in the same branch office and still conserve the bandwidth over WAN. Now at the same time I also want to have a failover GUP for the sites for i.e if the GUP assigned for one site goes down the clients in that site will take the defs from the GUP configured for another group and vice versa . So in explicit GUP mapping when I am mapping client subnet to a GUP can I specfiy two GUPs one Priamary and one secondary to be used when the Primary GUP is un-availble ?
Kindly help me my letting me know if this idea would work and suggest any alternatives if this wouldn't work or if there is any better way of achieving this. Thanks