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.

    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. Installing remote secondary servers
    Follow these procedures to install a Secondary Server feature on an Linux computer that is separate from your primary computer.
  2. Creating a Docker container secondary server
    Use this procedure to create a Docker container secondary server on a Linux system and connect it to your primary computer.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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: Installing and uninstalling