Equitrac print release high availability

High Availability (HA) print environments are designed to provide full-time system availability. High availability systems typically have redundant hardware and software that makes the system available in the event of a failure, and help distribute workload. To ensure that HA systems avoid having single points-of-failure, any hardware or software component that can fail has a redundant component of the same type.

When failures occur, the processes performed by the failed component are moved (or failed over) to the redundant or backup component. This process resets system-wide resources, recovers partial or failed transactions, and restores the system to normal as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. A highly available system is almost transparent to the users.

HA for Print Release allows users to release jobs at the MFP even in the event of a failure between the MFP and DCE. The user can still release jobs at an MFP when DCE is unavailable.

This section details print release high availability for Kofax Equitrac, and highlights the installation and configuration of a highly available printer release environment via Equitrac DCE server.

Kofax assumes that you have already created, configured and tested your Network Load Balancer (NLB) appliance. For information on setting up NLB, refer to your NLB vendor documentation.