On a large scale deployment, Security Center can federate thousands of independent remote systems. However, there are hardware and software limitations you must consider.
- Type of Federation™ roles you are hosting.
- Number of Federation™ roles you are hosting.
- Type of computer running the Genetec™ Server service. For the minimum, recommended, and high-performance requirements for client workstations, see Security Center 5.11 client workstation requirements.
Federation™ role groups
When a large number of Federation™ roles are hosted on the same server, they must be divided into multiple role groups. All roles belonging to the same role group are executed by the same process on the same machine. There is a limit to the number of roles a single process can handle.
| Role type | Number of Federation™ roles supported on a single server | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Single role group (Any hardware profile) | Multiple role groups (Low and Medium capacity hardware profiles) | Multiple role groups (High capacity hardware profile) | |
| Omnicast™ Federation™ | 40 | Contact Genetec™ Technical Assistance. | 100 |
| Security Center Federation™ | 100 | Contact Genetec Technical Assistance. | 500 |
If a single role group can have up to 40 Omnicast Federation™ roles, a high capacity computer hosting 100 Omnicast Federation™ roles requires three separate role groups. A high capacity computer hosting 500 Security Center Federation™ roles requires five separate role groups.
- Server A
- 40 Omnicast sites (role group 1) + 40 Omnicast sites (role group 2) + 20 Omnicast sites (role group 3) = 100 Omnicast sites.
- Server B
- 40 Omnicast sites (role group 1) + 40 Omnicast sites (role group 2) + 20 Omnicast sites (role group 3) = 100 Omnicast sites.
- Server C
- 40 Omnicast sites (role group 1) + 10 Omnicast sites (role group 2) = 50 Omnicast sites.