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Based on your company size and requirements to availability, you can run the Aggregator on server hardware, mini-computers or desktop computers. The Aggregator does not have a GUI.

Compatible operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 or higher

  • Windows 7 home edition or higher

Minimum hardware requirements:

  • 512 MHz 64-bit dual core CPU

  • 256 MB RAM

  • 50 MB disk space

  • Network card

  • + requirements from the OS

The Aggregator is a small application that converts data from different printer protocols to a common format.

  1. The Aggregator needs access to the machines via network on machine-specific ports. These ports might need to be forwarded or whitelisted in a firewall.

  2. The Aggregator pushes data via a REST API to the 3YOURMIND Agile MES on the default ports 80/433. This connection typically does not require additional network setup.

Multiple Aggregators might need to be deployed when the printers are operating in different networks. See Multi-Facility Installation below for more details.

The Aggregator must be installed and configured by a network administrator through a config file.

Multi-Facility Installation

The Aggregator supports connecting machines from multiple facilities to one 3YOURMIND Agile MES instance. To achieve such a connection, one or both of the following network setups can be used:

One Aggregator per facility

In this case, the Aggregator is running in each facility/network individually.

Advantage:

  • No port forwarding or firewall rules are needed.

  • It might be easier for the network administrator to obtain IP addresses and ports of the printers, which are needed for proper configuration of the Aggregator.

Disadvantage:

  • Each facility needs to setup the Aggregator. Multiple administrators might need to be involved. 

One Aggregator for all facilities

 In this case, one Aggregator is deployed on a central location (e.g. within the same environment as the 3YOURMIND Agile MES instance).

Advantage:

  • One single instance of the Aggregator needs to be set up. This could be handled by one single person.

Disadvantage:

  • Each printer needs to be accessible by the Aggregator on a printer-specific port. Those ports need to be forwarded per printer. Firewall rules need to be adjusted.

  • Collecting all IP addresses and ports might be harder.

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