Overview of Laserfiche Architecture

Agenda

‣ Parts of Laserfiche‣ Big picture‣ Splitting up the workload‣ Best Practices

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Repository

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VolumesDatabase

LFFTS CatalogAudit Logs

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Architecture

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Server

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Audit TrailLFFTS Engine

LFFTS Engine

Architecture

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Client Applications

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Desktop Client Applications

Quick Fields

Client

Desktop Client Applications

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Web Client Applications

Web Link

Web Access

Laserfiche Forms

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Web Client Applications

Web Servers

Web Client Applications

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Workflow

Workflow Subscriber

Workflow Server

Workflow

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Avante

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Rio

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License Manager

Architecture

‣ How does it all talk?• HTTP• SSL

Web Browser to Web Server

Application to server

Distributing the Workload

‣ Why distribute?‣ How do I distribute?

Distributing the Workload

‣ Why distribute?• Performance• Scalability

‣ How do I distribute?

Distributing the Workload

‣ Why distribute?‣ How do I distribute?

• DBMS• Laserfiche Server• Full Text Search Engine• Workflow Server

Distributing the Workload

‣ Why distribute?‣ How do I distribute?‣ OCR distribution:

• Distributed Processing

Upgrading

‣ Upgrading• From 8 to 9

Let the installer do it

• From 7 to 9 Migration Utility

Questions?