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Imaging Server Setup and
Configuration
Imaging Server Setup and Configuration
An imaging server provides extended imaging services for a Unix/Linux fax server. If you have both a Unix/Linux fax
server and a Windows fax server on the same network, you can configure them such that the Windows fax server
images the additional file types, not normally available on Unix/Linux, for the Unix/Linux fax server.
In order to implement an imaging server, you must have a full VSI-FAX server installed on both the Unix/Linux and
Windows hosts.
Important
A license is required to implement extended imaging services for your Unix/Linux production fax server. Please
enter the following license during VSI-FAX Server installation on the Windows computer:
Serial number: 961000320211733-061-0
Activation key: 7TGW-DD5O-FB2L-AOBP
To set up an imaging server, perform the following:
1. Verify that VSI-FAX Server is installed with the above license on the Windows computer you intend to use as
the imaging server.
The remainder of the imaging server setup is performed at the Unix fax server.
2. Stop the scheduler.
3. Modify the $VSIFAX/lib/vsisrv.ini file by adding the following entry to the VSINET section:
image-server=<host_name>
Where <host_name> is the network name of the Windows fax server.
4. Start the scheduler.
Image server issues (Unix only)
It is important that the image server be up and running before the VSI-FAX server is started. For this reason:
The vfxsched program checks if an image server is specified when it is starting the fax server, and if so, it
"pings" the image server to ensure that it is running. If the image server is not running, vfxsched will output
an error message and not start the fax server.
If any of the files needed for a fax envelope are on the image server and that server is down, then the job is
queued for later processing when the image server is back up. In this case, the job will stay in a SUBMIT
state. An entry is written to the vnetfax log indicating that the job is queued waiting for the image server to
come up. When it does, all queued jobs are processed.
If the Unix server is shut down, any queued jobs are saved and are reloaded when the server is started again.
Whenever the image server goes down or comes back up, a system notify script imgsvr is run if present. This script
is called as follows:
sys-imgsvr.<ext> <image-server> up|down
This can be used to notify an administrator that the image server needs attention.