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Splunk Enterprise › Administer › Update Your Deployment › Configure the agent management system › Implement an agent management cluster

Implement an agent management cluster

You can scale your agent management solution by implementing an agent management cluster consisting of multiple agent management servers that share their configurations and activities.

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