Multiple Collectors
What are some of the reasons to install multiple collectors?
1) better geographical coverage
2) increase the traffic capture bandwidth
3) offload log parsing
4) over...
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Automatic failover in case of a system outage. If a collector doesn't report in to the LM platform for 3 minutes, its tasks can be reassigned to a different collector. This can be done through Auto-Balanced Collector Groups or dedicated failover Collectors.
Also, for ABCGs if one Collector surpasses a defined threshold of instance count, i.e. too much load, the system will automatically reassign devices to a different Collector to balance the load. It's not actual load balancing, but more like automatic overload rectification.