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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 9:27 PM
Hi,
How can I configure a backup/failover NPS radius server? I do not need anny load balancing, just a server that can take over when the primary NPS server is not reachable. Our NPS is set up for wireless authentication and encryption using Domain computer certificates.
Thx!
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 4:23 AM ✅Answered
Hi,
Thanks for posting here.
I’m not sure if you had read the article below, because there are some good methods in that may help you to achieve the goal:
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dd197433(WS.10).aspx
Configure your network access servers to send connection requests to multiple RADIUS servers. For example, if you have 20 wireless access points and two RADIUS servers, configure each access point to send connection requests to both RADIUS servers. You can load balance and provide failover at each network access server by configuring the access server to send connection requests to multiple RADIUS servers in a specified order of priority. This method of load balancing is usually best for small organizations that do not deploy a large number of RADIUS clients.
Use NPS configured as a RADIUS proxy to load balance connection requests between multiple NPS servers or other RADIUS servers. For example, if you have 100 wireless access points, one NPS proxy, and three RADIUS servers, you can configure the access points to send all traffic to the NPS proxy. On the NPS proxy, configure load balancing so that the proxy evenly distributes the connection requests between the three RADIUS servers. This method of load balancing is best for medium and large organizations that have many RADIUS clients and servers.
Meanwhile, here are some methods could help you to sync NPS configurations between multi NPS servers:
Export an NPS Server Configuration for Import on Another Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732059(WS.10).aspx
NPS Server Synchronize
If you are running windows server 2008 R2 , please also take look the new NPS template feature:
NPS templates in Windows Server 2008 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nap/archive/2009/02/17/nps-templates-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Thanks.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 9:23 PM
Hi,
How can I configure a backup/failover NPS radius server? I do not need anny load balancing, just a server that can take over when the primary NPS server is not reachable. Our NPS is set up for wireless authentication and encryption using Domain computer certificates.
Thx!
Friday, December 10, 2010 9:03 AM
Hi,
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We are looking forward to your reply.
Thanks.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:04 PM | 1 vote
Load balancing is a different issue from fail over. If you configure your master as proxy with priority with a remote server group and the master crashes, how does it know to send requests to the remote server group??