5.05 - Multiple Instances are not sharing tasks, just duplicating them

Hi,

I'm currently setting up a test enviroment with Zenoss 5. I need to be sure it can scale to pretty large numbers. Traditionally we have used Zenoss Core 3.2.1 and have always had issues with zencommand saturation.
We use a combination of extra logical collectors and remote collectors to deal with the load and zencommand saturation.

While researching, we found this article - http://wiki.zenoss.org/Zenoss_Core_5_Scaling

We set up 3 instances of zencommand, but we still only have a single collector.

Then we wanted to test if the work was being shared between the 3 zencommand instances, or just being done in triplicate.

I set zencommand to log in debug mode, tailed the zencommand log from each docker container, then searched for a particular check on a particular host. This check only polls every 5 minutes.

Unfortunately I see the test being done every 5 minutes on each zencommand instance.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the instances share the work

I've have a screenshot which shows the same test on the same host being polled at 5 minute intervals by each zencommand instance.
Not sure how to attach it though, or if they're allowed on this forum..

Thanks,
Joan