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Old 2007-01-03
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Default Re: Necessity of installing Standalone due to license?

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Originally Posted by RayPesek View Post
I don't know why anyone needs a secondary SmartCenter unless they have a really large operation with lots of firewalls. In a distributed environment, the firewalls keep right on working for awhile (hours if not days) when the SmartCenter is down.
A lot of folks install them in DR sites. I also see people installing them if they have a lot of VPN users. I'm not sure how many of these are really needed, I can rebuild a SmartCenter from scratch if I have a backup, in less then an hour (record time 32 minutes w/o log files), but I do sell a lot of them!
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