Figure 1
This is the
default configuration when installing AyaNova. It is suitable for a
single user on one computer. The database can not be shared in this
configuration.
This is the
simplest configuration and does not require any other software or
special configuration changes to use right away.
In this
configuration AyaNova uses a special Firebird database server called
an “embedded” server that is included with AyaNova. The embedded
server is limited to one user at a time and the database file must
be on a local drive.
The embedded
database file used in this configuration is exactly compatible with
the full Firebird database server so it’s easy to scale up from a
single user to a shared network configuration.
Figure 2
This configuration
allows multiple users to share a single AyaNova database. A
database server is required for this configuration.
A single stand
alone database server as shown in Figure 2 above is not necessarily
required; a workstation could also be running the database
server software for smaller networks with few users.
AyaNova has been
carefully designed to be hardware scaleable. What this means is
there is virtually no practical limit to the number of users running AyaNova,
the only limiting factor is the speed and capacity of the hardware.
Figure 3
This configuration
allows remote users to connect to the AyaNova database via a “Data
Portal”. The purpose of the Data Portal is security: it can be
placed outside a network’s firewall so that the corporate database
server is not exposed to the internet.
A data portal is
simply a Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) that hosts a
portion of the AyaNova program that would normally run on your
workstation.
This allows a
remote user to use the same AyaNova executable program on their remote
computer as that used by local users inside the corporate network,
continuing to share the same database. Note that we do not mean a
web browser; we mean the windows program itself. Refer to
information below about WBI (web browser interface) if you are
interested in accessing the AyaNova data using a web browser.
In the diagram
(figure 3) above local users still connect directly to the database
server, only remote users connect via the Data Portal.
Note that a remote
user could connect to the database server directly however
other methods of security should be implemented.
You can also
connect directly to the database remotely rather than using the data
portal if that is more appropriate to your network, and you are
comfortable with setting up proper security on your database server
and network for protection.
WBI
(Web Browser Interface)
Figure 4
Brief outline of features can be found on the
WBI (Web Browser Interface) page.
The AyaNova WBI (Web Browser Interface) works with
Microsoft Information Server (IIS) to host the web pages that
connect to the licensed networked AyaNova database.
The WBI files and IIS can reside on the same
computer where the AyaNova database resides, or on a separate
computer - as long as within the same local area network.
When a user enters the URL to your WBI server in their web
browser and logs in, they are accessing the "pages" WBI provides to
obtain access to your database.
Whereas the DataPortal (figure 3 above) is for remote
users running the AyaNova program locally, remote users accessing
via WBI need only a web browser and an Internet connection.
