What is a key benefit of distributing polling tasks across multiple servers?

• A. Disable dashboards to save resources.
• B. Increases downtime risk.
• C. Reduces load on a single server and improves scalability.
• D. Rely on a single poller.

Answer: (C)

Distributing polling tasks across multiple servers helps manage resource usage by spreading CPU, memory, and I/O across several pollers. Each poller handles a subset of devices or polling jobs, so no single server becomes a bottleneck. This parallel processing increases overall polling capacity, allowing you to monitor more devices at the same intervals, and makes the system easier to scale as the network grows. It also adds redundancy: if one poller fails, others continue collecting data, reducing the chance of gaps. This is the best choice because it directly addresses improved load balance and scalability, whereas the other options describe outcomes that would waste resources, increase risk, or undermine the purpose of distributed polling.