During relay system setup, in the Specify Higher Systems dialog box specify the higher systems to which you want to connect. You must assign a priority to each higher system. When you specify the name of a higher system, use the ID key for operations (host name or IP address) of the higher system. You can specify a maximum of eight higher systems.

In a multi-polling environment, the relay system performs polling on a multi-host basis. Therefore, you cannot use hot-standby polling.

Also, note that in a multi-polling environment, you can only specify either host names or IP addresses of the higher systems as the ID key for operations. If you specify host names for some higher systems and IP addresses for the other higher systems, the jobs from the higher systems stop at the relay system and are not forwarded to the subsystems.

• When you use the facility for automatically registering the system configuration, the system configuration information is reported only to the higher system that has the highest priority.
• You can use ID groups only for the higher system that has the highest priority. You cannot add, as a relay for managing IDs, a relay system to an ID group created by a higher system that does not have the highest priority. If you attempt to do so, the system will be placed in registering status and the processing will not proceed. Also, you can only add a relay system to the ID group of a system set during setup as System for ID group registration on the Connection Destination page.
• If the Report the ID group job status to the managing server option is selected during setup, the results of ID group jobs are reported only to the higher system that has the highest priority.
• If the Suppress periodic jobs when the connection destination of the client is changed option is selected during setup, the results of periodic jobs are reported only to the higher system that has the highest priority.