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The Peer Management Broker is a key technology that is used by PeerGFS to facilitate communication between Agents and the PMC.  With the Network of Brokers capability, customers can deploy multiple instances of the Peer Management Broker across their infrastructure to better optimize and control the flow of replication traffic.

The Network of Brokers capability significantly enhances an active-passive configuration by enabling automatic failover from a primary PMC (server) to a backup PMC (server).  While it is possible to establish an active-passive configuration without Network of Brokers technology, utilizing Network of Brokers facilitates automatic failover instead of requiring manual intervention for the failover process.

For  information using the Network of Brokers capability, see Getting Started with Network of Brokers.  For more information about setting up failover to a backup PMC, see the article Achieving high availability for the PMC through active-passive configuration in our knowledge base.