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AccountIdentification

BeyondAccountIdandPassword,therearesomeadditionalfieldsthatmayoptionallybepopulated,andareuseful

forstoringbusiness‐specificinformationforeachuser.TheseareCustomer,Source,andCDRInfo.Thesearefree‐

textfieldsthatarelimitedto64characterseach.Allthreearealsologgedtothe

BillingDbforeveryfaxsentor

receivedbytheaccount.

AccountTypes

Therearethreetypesofaccounts:

• Private(oneclient,sendandreceive)

• Sharedsend‐only(sharedbymultipleclients,sendonly)

• Load‐balancegroup(routereceivefaxestomultipleaccounts)

MostaccountswillbePrivate.Aprivateaccountcanonlyhaveoneclientloggedin,andhasthe

capabilityof

sendingandreceiving.

ASharedSend‐Onlyaccountcanhavemultipleclientsloggedin.Thesystemwillcreateatemporaryaccountfor

eachloggedinclientwhichwillbevisibleinthePortServerManager.Eachtemporaryaccountwillbedeleted

whenthatclientlogsout.

ALoad‐

Balancegroupisonlyavirtualaccounttype.Clientsdonotactuallylogintothisaccount.Instead,faxeswill

bedistributedtootheraccountsthataremembersofthisgroup.Howthosefaxesaredistributedisdeterminedby

thedeliverypolicy:

• Alternating(Round‐Robin):eachfaxwillbesent

toeachgroupmemberinturn.

• MostFreeSessions:theConnectionServerwillevaluatewhichaccounthasthemostfreesessions(the

differencebetweenthataccount’scurrentlyactivefaxesanditstotalreceivecapacity).

• Random:theConnectionServerwillsendeachfaxtoarandomgroupmember.

Routing

AnaccountcanhaveoneormoreDIDsassignedtoit.ADIDcanonlybeassignedtoasingleaccount,butbyusing

theFailoverorLoad‐BalanceGrouptheConnectionServercaninsurethatthefaxhasaclienttoreceiveit.

Failover/Alternate

APrivateorLoad‐balanceGroupaccountcanhaveanotheraccountassignedasfailover.Failoveroccurson

inboundfaxeswheneithertheaccountisnotloggedinortheloggedinclienthasnomorereceiveportsavailable.

Itisalsopossibletochainmultiplefailoveraccountstogethersothatif

thefirstaccountisunavailableitwilltrya

second,andifthesecondaccountisunavailableitwilltryathird,andsoon.

ForLoad‐balanceGroupsallgroupmembersmustbeunavailableoratcapacitybeforethegroup’sfailoveraccount

istried.Otherwise,failoverworksnormally.

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