Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Features

The following clustering features are available to Platinum subscribers who are using the Advanced Clustering plugin:

Heartbeat

Each node in the cluster records a heartbeat at a regular interval that all other nodes in the cluster monitors to detect a failure.

Active/Active Mode

• Multiple nodes receive inbound messages through a round-robin load-balancer provided by the appliance.
• One node in the cluster is automatically designated to run polling channels and execute the data pruner on its defined schedule.
• Nodes may be added or removed on the fly.

Database Replication

The appliance provides a highly available, clustered database. If the primary database node fails, the standby database automatically takes its place.

Benefits of a Shared Database

• All nodes in the cluster share the same set of channels. Modifications to channels are effective for the entire cluster.
• You have the ability to view and manage messages processed by any node in the cluster from a single Message Browser window.
• Beginning with Mirth® Connect version 3.0, you have the ability to manually reprocess incomplete messages from a failed node on another node
• Other data, such as code templates, application messages, and users, is also shared across all nodes in the cluster.
• Channels are automatically redeployed on each cluster node after making channel modifications.
• You can start, stop, pause, halt, and resume channels across the cluster with one command.
• You can view the status and statistics of each node in the cluster without logging into each node individually.
• When one node fails, incomplete messages on that node are automatically reprocessed on another node.