Issues with REST collector in distributed setup, authentication token errors on multiple workers.

REST collector question. I used a standalone test box to get my REST collector working like I wanted. authentication, discover and collect worked great. When I moved it into my distributed environment, it errors out but does pull in some events. The discovery and collect phases are distrubuted across my 5 workers. It seems like the authentication token may not be working properly when it runs on more than one worker? I am guessing of course. I get errors like 503 Service Temporaily Unavailable and 500 Internal Server Error. This does not happen when I run it from my single standalone test server. I may need some assistance trying to figure this one out.