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Shinken Enterprise looks at all these relations and creates a graph with it. A graph is a relation shard. This can be illustrated by the following picture :
In this example, we will have two shards:
- shard 1: Host-1 to host-5 and all their checks
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When all relation shards are created, the Arbiter aggregates them into N configurations if the administrator has defined N active schedulers (no spares). shards are aggregated into configurations (it's like "Big shards"). The dispatch looks at the weight property of schedulers: the higher weight a scheduler has, the more shards it will have. This can be shown in the following picture :
The configurations sending to satellites
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