Configuring LCR for more than one site
Routing strategy across a network can be controlled centrally with Zetafax.
While configuring local servers for LCR and setting up links to other servers on the network require information specific to each server and must be done locally, fax destinations and routing rules may be defined by a head office, and distributed to all of the servers on the network.
This requires that the rules and destinations must function appropriately for all of the LCR servers. One way to achieve this might be to imagine an extra server on the network that has links to all the others, and develop rules and location definitions for sending faxes from that server.
Destinations
Work through the servers on the network, and define all the necessary areas and regions that will be required to produce efficient rules to and from them all. This may require the definition of areas in a number of countries.
Routing rules 'Use local server' versus <local server ID>
When adding servers to rules, you may have noticed that the ID of your local server appears in the list of all the servers to which you have configured links. This is for use when rules are exported to other servers, but the distinction between this and the Use local server option below the list is very important.
The Use local server option always refers to the local server, regardless of where the rules are installed. You may want to use this for rules such as 'Send all urgent faxes directly from the local server'.
Choosing your local server from the list of remote servers will have a different effect depending on where the rules are installed. If you were configuring rules on a server in Chicago to 'Send all faxes to North America via the Chicago server you would select your local server (Chicago) from the list of remote servers. Now when the same rule is used in Paris for example, faxes for North America will still be routed via Chicago.
Distributing the settings
Once the setup procedure is complete, Zetafax will have created a number of files containing all of your definitions.
The files: REGION.INI, COUNTRY.INI, AREAXXX.INI, (several) LCRRULES.INI
may be found in ..\Program Files\Zetafax Server\SYSTEM\Z-DB\. All of these may be copied directly into the same directory on servers across the network.
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