Maintenance Server technical information and tips

The Desktop Agent uses Windows RPC over named pipes to communicate with the maintenance server. For the maintenance server to function, named pipe traffic must not be blocked at any point between the DLO Client and the maintenance server.

The rolloff operation for delta revisions can require significant bandwidth. For this reason, the maintenance server should be installed on the computer that hosts the Storage Location.

However, there are situations where the maintenance server cannot be installed on the same computer as the Storage Location server. For example, the maintenance server cannot be installed on a NAS device. In this case, the maintenance server should be installed on a computer with a high bandwidth connection to the Storage Location.

A maintenance server can manage one or more Storage Locations. A maintenance server always manages the Storage Locations that are located on same computer as the maintenance server. The maintenance server can be configured to manage additional Storage Locations hosts from the DLO Administration Console. The maintenance server uses delegation to access remote Storage Locations.

See Configuring a maintenance server for delegation.