Setting up application and secondary servers

After successfully installing the base product, you can set up application and secondary servers on other computers in your network.

Secondary servers run on Linux computers; application servers run on Windows computers. Those computers must meet the requirements listed in the section Secondary computers.

    Note:
  • If you only want to create local secondary servers on the primary computer, you do not have to complete these procedures.

Secondary servers created on other computers use the Network File System (NFS) protocol to access the /aiw file system on the primary server. Application servers can use NFS or a different protocol to access the /aiw file system. Some configuration is required on both the primary computer and the secondary computers to enable that access.

After you configure the communication protocol between the computers, you install the Secondary Server feature or the Application Server and define the server object in RICOH ProcessDirector.

In this section:

  1. Task checklist
  2. Preparing the primary computer
    Before you install any application or remote secondary servers you must export the /aiw file system and create an application or secondary server object in RICOH ProcessDirector. If you plan to use NFS on an application server, you must also verify that an NFS server is installed and started on the primary computer. If you plan to use Samba on an application server, you do not need to install NFS.
  3. Installing the Secondary Server feature
    You can install the RICOH ProcessDirector Secondary Server feature on a Linux system in your network.
  4. Preparing a Windows application server
    When you install an application server on Windows, you are required to mount the /aiw file system from the primary computer so the Windows application server has write access to the /aiw file system as the system user (aiw1 is the default).
  5. Installing application servers on Windows computers
    After you have completed the prerequisite steps, you can install an application server on a Windows system in your network.
  6. Configuring an application server to run as a service

Related information:

Tuning step templates
Defining secondary servers on the primary computer
Secondary servers
Application server
Parent topic: Planning and Installing RICOH ProcessDirector