Solution Guide

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Single FTK 3 Server Solution
In the single FTK 3 server solution, a single FTK 3 client can connect to a single
server. The client is pointed to this server and cannot connect to any other FTK 3
server. In the event of a server failure, the client connection will be lost. The
FTK 3 server will also be running the local FTK embedded Oracle database
because this version of the database does not support collaboration between
other FTK Oracle databases or other FTK users.
Multiserver Solution (No High Availability)
In the multiserver solution, each client will connect to their home FTK 3 server
and cannot connect to any to other FTK 3 server. When a server has a session of
FTK 3 running, it is no longer available to accept any new FTK 3 client session:
the software setup in the Dell forensic framework makes it impossible for a
server to run more than one session of the FTK 3 application simultaneously. By
allowing only one session to run per server, the multithreaded FTK 3 application
is able to devote all available server resources to processing a case, thus
improving performance.