[c-nsp] Data destinations for cisco sce 2000 devices

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Hi All

 We currently use a cisco sce2000 appliance to provision international bandwidth to our customers and to export traffic flows (in the form of RDR packets) to a single flow collection server ("data destination"), which stores the flows in a sql database. Recently we've needed to add some redundancy and failover to this data collection and it turns out (as stated in the sce documentation)  that the sce will support multiple destinations for rdr packets and that it will use those destinations in 3 modes: 

1. Redundant data collection servers with failover to the next destination if one is unreachable.
2. Multicast to several destinations
3. Round robin to several destinations

My question is this: Does anyone know if this actually works in practice as a mechansism for making the data collection database redundant? I.e despite what the sce documentation states, is there any reason why the sce using Redundant data collectors with failover would not be a viable way of adding redundancy to the data collection database?

Thanks in advance!
Traiano




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