Assigning relays to clients

When you have set up a relay you must direct BigFix clients on your network to gather from that relay, instead of from your server. You can:

• Assign relays manually as it is described in the following topics:
  • Assigning relay at client installation time
  • Manually assigning relays to existing clients
• Assign relays automatically, that means to allow clients to identify the closest relay to connect to, as it is described in the following topics:
  • Automatically assigning relays at client installation time
  • Automatically assigning relays to existing clients
  If you select this method, you can also choose to exploit the relay affiliation functionality. Using this functionality you create groups of affiliated clients and you assign relays to the affiliation group. For more information about this functionality and how to use it, see Using relay affiliation.

  For more information and considerations about automatic relay assignment, see Notes about automatic relay assignment.