Assistance with a REST collector

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.