Is it possible to setup two Enterprise Consoles pointing to just one Sophos Endpoint Server?

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Hi Guys,

I just wanted to ask if it's possible to have two Enterprise consoles pointing to just a single Sophos Endpoint Server?

Here is our current setup. Our Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection server is located at London. We have different sub-groups across the different regions. What we want to do is to manage the APAC sub-group via Singapore. The problem is, our link to the London office is quite slow thus, we need to find a way on how to manage the APAC Sub-group from the Singapore office while streamlining the policies from that of the London site. Is this possible?

Can we set-up another site in Singapore and have it connect to the London site as a replication server so that all policies and updates are consistent?

Thanks!

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QC · Accepted Answer

Agreed, much information for a beginner. The policies are kept on the management server. A client usually requests the initial policy from the server after installation. I case a message relay is configured the client send this request to the relay which in turn forwards it to the server. The server responds with the policy (policies) which is sent through the relay to the client. The relay does not keep any policy (or other content exchanged between clients and servers) except that it does a store and forward if needed. Thus the traffic is in principle the same with our without a message relay but there would be only two connections (one down- and one upstream) between server and relay (which reduces the overhead). Later a policy will only be sent by the server if it is changed, the client's group is assigned a different policy or the client is moved to a group with a different policy (or you use Comply with ... ). Thus no policies travel if there are no changes. The message relay is just that - a message relay. It is not a mirror or satellite. Christian :17499