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How do Data Collection Device zones work?
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 8.4.0
How do Data Collection Device zones work?
There are two ways to use Data Collection Device (DCD) zones to control
how data is stored for your managed BIG-IP devices.
- You can use zones to optimize statistics traffic routing. By assigning DCDs to a zone and then assigning managed BIG-IP devices to that zone, you control which DCDs collect statistic traffic for each device.
- DCD zone awareness factors into how the DCD cluster performs during Disaster Recovery scenarios. The role zones play in these scenarios is discussed in the managing-disaster-recovery-scenarios-with-two-data-centers.dita article onsupport.f5.com.
To specify which DCDs collect statistics traffic for a BIG-IP device,
you perform two tasks:
- Log in to each DCD that should collect data for this BIG-IP device and assign them to the correct zone.
- Log in to the BIG-IQ CM and assign the BIG-IP to the zone to which those DCDs are assigned.
