Buffering from an interface on the computer

You might install some interfaces, such as a Performance Monitor interface or a PI to PI interface, on the Data Archive computer. You can use a buffering service to send data from that interface to all the servers in a collective or to specific other servers. You can use either buffering service for interfaces on the Data Archive computer, but procedures differ for each service.

Use caution when selecting which servers to send buffered data. For performance monitoring interfaces, which collect data about a particular server, you might want to send data to all servers in a collective, including the server hosting the interface. On the other hand, for a PI to PI interface that collects data stored on the host Data Archive server, you do not want to send the data back to that server; instead you probably only want to send the data to other servers in its collective.