Re: Global roaming difficulties

Thank you very much for this answers!!!
But one question...
Why is in the second case (when I roam to a secondary beneath another
primary then my assigned site) the MP from that primary not seen as my
resident MP (since there is no MP on that secondary). Shouldn't he
communicate with that MP first instead of going to my assigned site. The
source files are avaialable on that primary site?
Or do I understand this wrong?

Thanks!!

"Kim Oppalfens" wrote:

> Inline
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some confusion with global roaming. We have one central site, 2
> > primary sites (P1 and P2) beneath the central and beneath both primaries we
> > have some secondary sites (no Proxy MP enabled). All locations are having an
> > unprotected DP. All primaries and secondaries have local roaming boundaries
> > configured but no remote roaming boundaries.
> >
> > Three questions:
> >
> > 1/ What happens if a client roams from one secondary site S1 beneath P1 to
> > another secondary S2 beneath P1 and the source files for an advertisement are
> > only available on a DP at P1 and a DP at S1.
> > The client will fall back to his resident MP P1 but source files are not
> > locally for him at the DP at S2. What will happen now? Will he download and
> > execute from the DP from p1 (if the advertisement is configured like this)?
> If you configured your advertisement to do so, and there is no port
> filtering going on by firewalls and such then yes it will download &
> execute.
>
> >
> > 2/ What happens if the client roams from secondary S1 beneath P1 to
> > secondary S3( no source files for the advertisement) beneath P2 (where the DP
> > stores source files for the advertisement and these source files are also
> > stored)
> >
> Depending on advertisement the client would run from dp/ download or
> execute/ not run at all from the dp in site P1.
> Either you install from a dp in the site where you are residing or from
> a dp in your assigned site. No other options exist.
>
> > The clients residents MP will be P2, but the source files are not available
> > on the DP from S3, so will he download and execute from P2 or P1 (again if
> > the advertisement is configured for download and execute). Will he really
> > move back to it's assigned site P1 for downloading or use P2 DP's??
> If the client is in s3 then p2 is not his resident management point,
> answer is the same as above, local dp doesn't have the files so we
> target assigned site dp's.
>
> >
> > 3/ Do proxy management points change anything in this behaviour??
> Nope, only difference is that proxy management points streamline
> inventory and software metering data, and the query to find a local dp
> is sent to a different mp (the net outcome should be identical).
> >
> > I'm really confused in this.
> > All explanations are very welcom
> --
> Kim Oppalfens
> MVP SMS
> Computacenter Belgium
>
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