Oracle Exam 1Z0-457 Topic 1 Question 20 Discussion

The Management Service for Grid Control has a high availability feature called the Shared Filesystem Loader. In the Shared Filesystem Loader, management data files received from Management Agents are stored temporarily on a common shared location called the shared receive directory. All Management Services are configured to use the same storage location for the shared receive directory. The Management Services coordinate internally and distribute among themselves the workload of uploading files into the Management Repository. Should a Management Service go down, its workload is taken up by surviving Management Services. You must choose a shared receive directory that is accessible by all the Management Services using redundant file storage.

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Oracle strongly recommends you to configure a shared file system loader so that a common location is maintained to store all the metric data files uploaded by the Management Agents.