Symantec 10551441 Administration Guide - Page 185

Managing roaming clients 185 Implementing roaming Symantec System Center will configure all of the clients that are in the client group. 2 In the Client Roaming Options dialog box, do the following: ■ Enable roaming on clients on which the Symantec AntiVirus roam service is installed. ■ Set the number of minutes that a client waits before it validates that its parent server is available. The default setting is 120 minutes. ■ Set the number of minutes that a client waits before it checks for a closer parent server. The default setting is 60 minutes. ■ Set the number of times that a client checks each server to determine the average number of seconds required to contact it. The client then uses this sampling to determine how close a server is to the client. The default setting is 7 times. ■ Set the number of seconds that a client that cannot find a new parent server waits before retrying to connect to a new parent server. The default setting is 30 seconds. 3 Under Use These Servers, select one of the following: Roaming Failover You can set up 0 level parent servers. You can set up a fault tolerance system by specifying backup servers to handle clients when roam servers are unavailable. A roaming client checks the response time for the first server in the list that answers. If the first backup server fails, the roaming clients that it manages migrate to the next available backup server in the list when they check their parent server availability. Backup servers do not load balance.