RightFax Shared Service Module

The capacity of a RightFax Server can now be multiplied by combining two or more servers that share a common RightFax database, in a "RightFax Server Collective." Sharing a common database provides the following architectural and systems benefits:

• Throughput for sending faxes increases because internal loads are shared among some of the fax server services.
• Multiple RightFax Servers share all of the data in the RightFax database—users, delegates, phonebook entries, distribution lists and document data such as fax status. The data is available to all the administrators and clients in the network. Furthermore, administrators manage this information in one central location for all servers in the shared configuration.
• All received faxes are stored on the SQL Server and are available to all clients in the network.
• A common database helps maintain integrity of RightFax data.
• Redundant data is eliminated, saving storage space.
• Scalability is ensured; the RightFax software does not limit the number of RightFax Servers that can share a common database.
• Loads are balanced across the collective. RightFax services are shared by multiple machines to balance the workload from many RightFax clients.

These capabilities are available in the Shared Services Module, an option that is available for all RightFax 9.3 Enterprise Server packages. Up-to-four servers are supported in this shared database configuration, a "collective."

Features of RightFax Server Collectives

Fax Volume Capacity Increases

With multiple RightFax Servers sharing a RightFax database, the capacity for inbound and outbound faxing is bound by the following system characteristics:

• Qualities of the hardware
• Network capacity
• SQL Server capacity
• Method of submitting documents to RightFax, listed from fastest to slowest: Applications submitting documents to the RightFax Server via the RightFax API or COM API.
• RightFax printer queue (e.g., embedded codes, print-to-fax, HPFAX queue).
• RightFax Integration Module (with a greater server load that requires more server resources). Each RightFax Server supports up-to-1,024 fax channels. Expect to see a near-linear increase in throughput with each added RightFax Server added to the collective.  RightFax has tested and supports this shared database configuration with up-to-four RightFax Servers and one remote Workserver sharing one RightFax database.