A customer's deployment server is overwhelmed with forwarder connections after adding an additional 1000 clients. The default phone home interval is set to 60 seconds. To reduce the number of…

The correct answer is D. Increase the phone home interval to 600 seconds. IE slowing down the phone home time to 10 minutes would slow down the connection collisions. Third option not here would be to use DNS name for the DS then utilize Round Robin or some other type of Load Balancing to handle connection requests.

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Question

A customer's deployment server is overwhelmed with forwarder connections after adding an additional 1000 clients. The default phone home interval is set to 60 seconds. To reduce the number of connection failures to the DS what is recommended?

Options

ACreate a tiered deployment server topology.
BReduce the phone home interval to 6 seconds.
CLeave the phone home interval at 60 seconds.
DIncrease the phone home interval to 600 seconds.

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A
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B
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C
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D
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Explanation

IE slowing down the phone home time to 10 minutes would slow down the connection collisions. Third option not here would be to use DNS name for the DS then utilize Round Robin or some other type of Load Balancing to handle connection requests.

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