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Table Of Contents
- ACE Management Server Administrator’s Manual
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Planning an ACE Management Server Deployment
- Installing and Configuring ACE Management Server
- Configuration Options for ACE Management Server
- Prerequisites for Configuring the Server
- Starting ACE Management Server Configuration
- Viewing and Changing Licensing Information
- Using an External Database
- Creating Access Control
- Uploading Custom SSL Certificates
- Logging Events
- Applying Configuration Settings
- Load-Balancing Multiple ACE Management Server Instances
- Typical Setup Using Load-Balanced ACE Management Server Instances
- Install the Required Services for Load Balancing
- Use the Same SSL Certificate on All Servers
- Create New SSL Certificates and Keys for Each Server
- Installing and Configuring the Load Balancer
- Verify That ACE Instances Are Using the Load Balancer
- Managing ACE Instances
- Viewing ACE Instances That the Server Manages
- Search for an Instance
- Sort by Column Heading and Change Column Width
- Show, Hide, and Move Columns in the Instance View
- Create or Delete Custom Columns in the Instance View
- View Instance Details
- Reactivate, Deactivate, or Delete an ACE Instance
- Change a Copy Protection ID
- Reset the Authentication Password
- Add Information for Custom Columns
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance
- Appendix: Database Schema and Audit Event Log Data
- Glossary
- Index
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Typical Setup Using Load-Balanced ACE Management Server
Instances
AsingleACEManagementServercanhandleapresetnumberofclients,butyoucanaddmoreserverstoyour
ACEManagementServerinfrastructurebyusingloadbalancing.Whenyouaddmoreserverstothe
load‐balancinggroup,thenumberofclientsthatyoucanservescaleslinearly.Forexample,if
youcanserv e
2,000 clientswithoneserver,usingtwoload‐balancedserversallowsyoutoserve4,000 clients.
Figure 5‐1showsasimpledeploymenttopologyforusingloadbalancing.
Figure 5-1. Two ACE Management Server Instances Working Together
Touseasetupsimilartotheonedepicted,youmusthavethefollowing:
Twoormoremachines(orvirtualmachines)tohosttheACEManagementServerprocesses
AnexternaldatabasetohosttheACEManagementServerdata
Aloadbalancingsolutiontomanagetraffic
Install the Required Services for Load Balancing
ServicesincludemultipleACEManagementServerinstances,anexternaldatabase,andWorkstation.
To install the required services for load balancing
1InstalltheACEManagementServerpackageontwoormoremachines(orvirtualmachines).
See“InstallingandUpgradingACEManagementServer”onpage 22.
2ConfigureeachACEManagementServerseparatelytoaccessthesameexternaldatabase.
See“StartandConfigure
ACEManagementServer”onpage 26.
BothACEManagementServerinstallationsmustbeabletoidentifythesamedatastoresoeither
installationcanfieldqueriesforclientsandscalethenumberofclientsthatcanbeserved.
ACE
Management
Server 1
ACE
Management
Server 2
Active Directory
domain controller
database
server
load
balancer
(optional)
AMS Client
AMS Client
AMS Client
LDAP
Kerberos
LDAP
Kerberos
ODBC
ODBC
HTTPS
HTTPS
HTTPS
HTTPS
HTTPS