RICOH ProcessDirector servers

A RICOH ProcessDirector system is made up of the primary server and, if needed, one or more application and secondary servers.

You can create secondary servers on Linux or AIX systems; you can install application servers on Windows systems. You might have to do tasks on the primary server, a secondary server, or an application server, such as starting, stopping, enabling, and disabling them. In some cases, the procedures for application and secondary servers differ among the operating systems.

In this section:

  1. Starting and stopping servers
    The RICOH ProcessDirector base product and secondary servers can be configured to start and stop when the system they are installed on starts and stops. Application servers must always be started manually; they stop when the system they are installed on shuts down, but can also be stopped manually.
  2. Updating a primary computer host name or IP address
    When the host name or IP address of a primary computer changes, you must update RICOH ProcessDirector to recognize the change.
  3. Recovering from an unplanned outage
    If your primary computer becomes unavailable because of network problems, hardware failure, or software failure, you must shut down the system, fix all the problems on the primary computer so that it is available to the network, and then restart the system. If an application/secondary server is defined to the primary server when the primary server suffers an unplanned outage, that server attempts to reestablish the connection every 30 seconds, until it is able to connect or until it stops.
  4. Moving processing to and from a failover server
    Failover servers are designed to take over processing in the event that your RICOH ProcessDirector production server suffers a catastrophic event. Use this procedure to move processing between the RICOH ProcessDirector production server and the failover server.

Related information:

Primary server
Parent topic: Managing system objects