Chapter 12. CS-MARS Global Controller

A global controller (GC) provides several key capabilities that are important in a larger Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (CS-MARS) deployment. As you’ve learned in previous chapters, many organizations can be successful with a single CS-MARS appliance. However, for various reasons, it is often desirable to have a distributed deployment instead, with a centralized console that controls the various local controllers (LC).

The following is a list of some of the reasons why you might want to deploy a GC:

Large amount of event data—If your reporting devices send more events per second than a single MARS local controller can process, this load can be distributed across more local controllers. ...

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