Remote Filtering Server and Policy Broker replication

Unlike other components, Remote Filtering Server (available to Forcepoint URL Filtering customers who purchase the Remote Filter Module) does not use the Policy Server connection list to determine its Policy Broker connection order. Instead, Remote Filtering Server always connects to the primary Policy Broker.

If the primary Policy Broker becomes unavailable, however, Remote Filtering Server continues to function normally:

• There is only one setting that Remote Filtering Server retrieves from Policy Broker: whether to fail open or fail closed if Remote Filtering Client cannot connect to Remote Filtering Server.
• If Remote Filtering Server cannot retrieve the setting from Policy Broker, it uses the default option (fail open).