Installation guide

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Configuring the Archive
Server or Network
Gateway
After you have installed the necessary IMPAX packages on the Archive Server or Network Gateway,
the system components can be configured for initial use. Configuration must be performed after the
IMPAX Server software and the Application Server software is installed. For procedures and information
on how to configure the IMPAX system using the Administration Tools, refer to the Administration
Tools component of the IMPAX 6.3 Server Knowledge Base.
Configuring PACS Store and Remember archiving
This topic applies only to an Archive Server, or to the Archive component of a single-host server
(including standalone with archive and single-server configurations).
PACS Store and Remember archiving is used in two circumstances:
• When an external PACS system is used as the primary archive device (there is no archive hardware
on the IMPAX system)
• As additional storage in a cluster with separate archive servers connected to other archive types,
for example, separate hub and spoke IMPAX clusters (two or more) or an external PACS with
current or historical image data
In general terms, PACS Store and Remember archiving works the same way as other archiving. You
configure the archiving based on the station, Autopilot creates STORE jobs based on the archiving
settings, and studies are retrieved via RETRIEVE jobs. A Store and Remember queue is managed like
any other queue in the Administration Tools.
The difference between PACS Store and Remember archiving and media-based archiving is that the
MVF_SCU process handles the archiving instead of a separate archive process. With PACS Store and
Remember archives, STORE jobs are done via DICOM C-STORE and RETRIEVE jobs are done via
DICOM C-MOVE. In media-based archiving, the STORE and RETRIEVE jobs are handled by internal
processes.
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