Clients and Relays can have a Primary and Secondary setting set via right-click on the endpoint under Computers.

These are represented by the following client settings:

In addition there is a setting that allows a list of Relays :

_BESClient_RelaySelect_TertiaryRelayList

Finally a last restort fail-over setting:

_BESClient_RelaySelect_FailoverRelay

Please see the following guide to creating settings via actionscript:

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=388.

These settings are used in the following order:

  1. Attempt primary selection value (__RelayServer1).
  2. Attempt secondary selection value (__RelayServer2).
  3. Attempt tertiary selection if (_BESClient_RelaySelect_TertiaryRelayList) is set.
  4. Attempt failover selection if (_BESClient_RelaySelect_FailoverRelay) is set.
  5. Attempt root server selection .

 

Please see the following Relay guide:

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/redir.pl?page=besrelays.

Please see the following Relay Health guide:

http://support.bigfix.com/bes/misc/besrelayhealth.html.