
Let’s start with the easiest one first, the MnT node.


PANs and Monitoring & Troubleshooting (MnT) nodes both employ the concept of primary and secondary nodes, but they operate very differently. There is also the issue of authentication sessions from the network access devices (NAD) reaching the PSNs in the event of a WAN outage, as well as a NAD recognizing that a PSN may no longer be active, and sending authentication requests to the active PSN instead. There are the concerns of communication between the PANs and the other ISE nodes for database replications and synchronization, and communication between the PSNs and Monitoring nodes for logging. There are many different items to note when it comes to high availability (HA) within a Secure Access deployment.
