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Redistribute Devices Evenly Among Front Servers

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  • October 14, 2021
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Hi all,
is there a mechanism to redistribute devices evenly among front servers or do I have to do it manually using Shared Device Settings and Device Groups? I have a new FS added to my farm and find myself doing the redistribution manually, trying to find a filter in Device Groups that makes sense.
If there is a mechanism, please share. If not, please accept this as an idea.

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  • October 20, 2021

Hi @Carsten.Schmidt We are trying to release a plugin to redistribute devices evenly among front servers, i will create a case for you so that we can push the fix to your server when it’s available.  In the future release, we will add the Front Server Group back. 


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  • October 22, 2021

Hello @Carsten.Schmidt,

This is Lindsay from PM team. Thank you for this idea and this is currently under PM’s consideration. To help us develop this feature completely fit your need, may I ask why do you need to evenly distribute devices among front server? is there specific task you need to accomplish?  


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  • October 22, 2021
Updated idea statusOpenUnder Consideration

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  • Brainy
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  • October 25, 2021

Hello @Lindsay Li 

as described above I added a new front server to the two already in service. The new FS has 0 devices assigned to it, the other two have roughly 4500 each. Now I had to manually create a device group to assign devices to the new FS. Since I use a device group, the selection is not random but based on certain device criteria, i.e. I move devices from a certain site or all Cisco devices to the new FS.
It would be easiest if there were a function to select the front servers and do a redistribution.