Intel,Altiris Group

I may not understand what the management server role is when at a remote site?

I have 25 sites.  20 sites are all setup for  GUP's since there are only about 200 clients at each of those sites. I have our main site with 2 SEPM's setup for load balance and failover.  Then I have 4 sites with thier own SEPM since those sites have close to 1000 clients.  The reason I set it up this way I was hoping that those SEPM's at the 4 sites could handle more of the traffice and not have any client at those sites communicate back with my two SEPM's at our main office.  I have each site setup to replicate the logs both ways to the primary site. They are set at Auto replicate.  I have found that a lot of clients at those remote sites are taking up to 2 days to get the proper policy if I change the policy on the main site SEPM's.

Should I just remove those SEPM's and enable a GUP?  I have noticed that when I removed groups from my primary SEPM's that the groups didn't get removed from any of my remote SEPM's.

Any suggestions?


Thanks,

Kris.

Any change in your primary site will get affected in your remote site only after the successful replication. Is it not happening? In my opinion it is better to keep those additional management servers since it will reduce the network traffic. If you want to get the policy change effective immediately either you have to remove those servers or you have to manually replicate those servers after changing the policy. 

Since you have set remote site replication to auto replicate there is not control when replication happens.
Check the logs and see when it relicates and check whether it finished successfully.
(Monitors--->Logs--->Log type "System"-->Log content "Server Activity"-->Select advanced settings-->Event type "Replication events")

Because of auto replicate settings your policy is applied to those clients after the replication only..

  You can upgrade the servers to latest version(RU5). It has lot of features(GUP) and you can remove Remote site.

Or you can try Internal liveupdate server.
You can bring all the pc's to main server and configure liveupdate policy to point local distribution center(LU hosted server in remote site) 
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/installation-and-configuration-lua
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/configuring-distribution-center-lua

Aravind,

Thanks!

If you have GUP(Multiple GUPs are possible in RU5) and LUA distribution center in the remote site you will have redundant path for updates. This will not create any bandwidth issues. Since all your client comes under one SEPM, There will not be any delay in the policy deployment.

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