Understanding Security Framework Datacenters

A Security Framework Datacenter is a cluster of Security Framework Distributed Database nodes.

If only using a single Security Framework Datacenter, performance and availability of services may degrade as more and more ControlSuite servers are added as this causes increased communication between the Distributed Database (DDB) nodes. The Security Framework must continue working even when the network between the locations is down since a persistent network connection between some locations may not always be available.

As an example, say ControlSuite is installed in Budapest where there is a single local Security Framework Datacenter and nodes. Now a new instance of ControlSuite is installed in New York but is configured to talk to the single Security Framework Datacenter in Budapest. There may be long latency communicating between New York and Budapest and there is the requirement of a persistent Internet connection to a majority of the DDB nodes in Hungary. This persistent connection may not be possible and introduce downtime. The solution is to create another security framework datacenter in North America for the New York ControlSuite installation to use.

Kofax recommends to create a Security Framework Datacenter within each geographical location (a location that has a stable and reliable WAN) and not use a single Security Framework Datacenter world-wide.

Each datacenter should have a unique identifiable name so that they can each be found by name and not just by ID.