Data Center
A data center is a system service that can be installed on any network computer. It is used to store the configuration of agents and the entire information received from them: document images, information about print jobs and so on. Also, this module is used to generate reports and add information about print jobs to the database.
Since this module is supposed to manage large amounts of data (images, database), you should consider running it on a dedicated computer. However, it is not a requirement: the data center, the management console and the monitoring agent can run on one computer without any problems.
Several data centers can be installed in one network, each of them can store a separate variant of configuration. Correspondingly, the console allows you to connect to any data center by the computer name it is running on or by its IP address. The address of the active data center is displayed in the tree in parentheses next to the Data Center label.
After you connect to a data center, you can monitor the status of monitoring agents, view the images of printed documents and print job properties in the console.
You should note one important thing: the management console cannot operate without a running data center. When you install monitoring agents from the console connected to a certain data center, agents are linked to the current data center. Therefore, they can send data and images only to it. To link an agent to another data canter, you should first remove it (agent) and install it again while being connected to the new data center. After that the agent acquires a new host and starts sending documents to it.
Since some operations are performed on the computer where the data center is running, the program has special tools allowing you to configure it.
