Multi-Facility Installation

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Last updated: Nov 02, 2021 by Dennis Hezel
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The Aggregator supports connecting machines from multiple facilities to one 3YOURMIND Agile MES instance. To achieve such 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.