Blueworx Voice Response provides
a highly scalable system, whichever programming environment
you use. You can increase scalability adding extra client nodes as
installation
traffic grows.
What is a single system image (SSI)? You can use a local area network to connect a cluster of Blueworx Voice Response systems. All the systems can then share all the application data in the cluster (such as state tables and custom servers) and all the voice data (such as voice segments and voice messages). When the systems are connected in this way, you can install a voice application on one system in the cluster, and make it available to all the systems. This means that as your business grows, you can add more systems with little additional work.The cluster of Blueworx Voice Response systems is known as a single system image (SSI). This section tells you what you should consider when you plan to create a single system image.
Planning a single system image When you plan your single system image, think about: AIX login account, telephony network, configuring the nodes, 3270 sessions, and AIX locale definitions.
Migrating from a stand-alone system to a single system image If you want to migrate an existing Blueworx Voice Response system to a single system image, note that you can restore the data from only oneBlueworx Voice Response system to a single system image. This is because most of the database is shared, so it would get overwritten if you attempted to restore on more than one node of the single system image.
Custom servers in a single system image This section lists the custom servers that are supplied with Blueworx Voice Response, and shows to what extent these custom servers observe the guidelines outlined in the Blueworx Voice Response for AIX: Custom Servers information.