raymondesray
Apr 09, 2020Iron Contributor
Status:
Looking into it
Connectors working together to provide High Availability
Connectors working together to provide High Availability. Now one connector is associated to one printer. If connector is down, printing is not possible. Just like similar solution as we have with m...
Rani_Abdellatif
Mar 15, 2022Former Employee
That is a very interesting setup. Although we don't have the failover feature yet, I will check whether there is any reason this setup might not be recommended. Having said that, I'm not sure it would work with a connector appliance because I assume that the secondary connector would need to be an appliance too. Connectors from different vendors wouldn't work as failover unit.
As I mentioned in my previous post to Frank and David, please consider Universal Print Ready printers to eliminate the need for connectors. Please get in touch with your printer OEM to find out if you can upgrade the software on your current printers to be Universal Print Ready.