Update the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Software

Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1

View Details about the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare

The dashboard displays information about your appliance and its current state. In the Mirth Appliance Dashboard, you can view information that is useful for monitoring how the system is operating. Some of the information is also necessary when contacting NextGen Healthcare Support. To open the Mirth Appliance Dashboard, select System > Dashboard.The Mirth Appliance Dashboard displays information about your appliance and its current state in the following four sections: System Status displays version information for the Control Panel, for components, and for applications installed on the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare. Note: Appliance Version refers to the version of the Control Panel application). Your appliance's serial number is required when contacting NextGen Healthcare Support. Mirth Messaging Totals displays counts of the number of Mirth® Connect messages received and how the run was processed: Received, Filtered, Queued, Sent, and Error. What’s Running displays the servi

Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1

Configuring Mail

The Mail Configuration window allows you to enter email notification addresses. From the menu, select System > Mail to access the mail configuration settings. The Mail Configuration window enables you to set one or more email notification addresses in the Notification Email Address field. To set more than one address, separate each recipient by a comma. Enter an email address in the Default From Address field to identify messages sent from the appliance. The default from address is alert@mirthappliance.com. When the SMTP Relay Host field is blank (the default value), the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare attempts direct mail delivery. This setting is the most reliable, but requires outbound network access on TCP port 25. If your network restricts outbound SMTP traffic you need to talk to your network administrator either to open access for the appliance or to provide you with an authorized SMTP relay host. You can reference the host by name or IP address. Mail Configuration window

Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1

System Menu

You can perform Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare system administration with the System menu on the Control Panel web application. Note: No special operating system or command line knowledge is necessary to perform any of the functions in the System menu. View Details about the Mirth Appliance by NextGen Healthcare The dashboard displays information about your appliance and its current state. Create Backup Sets Backup sets are collections of components with a given destination for the backup data. Restore a Backup to an Appliance When you restore a backup, you can select any or all of the components in the backup file’s backup set to restore. Update the Mirth Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Software Updates to Mirth® applications, new features, bug fixes, and security patches are all delivered online and controlled from the appliance. Mirth Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Certificates The appliance SSL Certificate window enables you to work with the local certificate authority or

Mirth® Connect by NextGen Healthcare Advanced Clustering User Guide

Update the Appliances

You must ensure that each appliance in the cluster has the latest software updates. Select System > Software Updates > Check for Updates. Install all available updates for each appliance. Note: If you are using an external database separate from the appliance, skip to Run the Mirth Connect Clustering Setup Wizard. Parent topic: Download the Advanced Clustering Plug-in

Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1

Applications Control

The Applications Control window displays a list including the Control Panel and all installed applications. Select Applications > Applications Control to view a list including the Control Panel and all installed applications. The name of each application is a link that opens the application. The list also provides the version of the application, an Action button to start or stop the application, a button to Manage the application, and the URL to access the application directly. Applications Control window Note: The functions available on the Applications Control window are also available by going to the menu entry in the Applications menu for each application, and selecting Launch or Manage in the sub-menu that appears. In some cases, the Manage entry itself has another sub-menu. The windows that you navigate to, in order to perform any of these functions are the same whether you go to them through the Applications Control window or through the entries for the applications on the Appli

Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Deployment Guide, 4.1

Using the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Control Panel

The Control Panel is a web interface where you can view and set the details of the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare configuration, and monitor and control its operation. The default credentials are: username: admin password: admin Important: You should delete or change the default credentials as soon as possible. When you are logged on to the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare, the Control Panel displays a series of menus. Selecting the name of the menu takes you to the first item in that menu by default. For example, if you select System on the menu goes, you go directly to the Dashboard. The Control Panel includes three indicators with a current status for each. For more information, see Monitoring Mirth Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Component Status. The Control Panel includes Restart and Shutdown buttons:. The Restart button performs a reboot operation. The unit shuts down and immediately powers up again. The Shutdown button performs a system shutdown and leaves the app

Update the Mirth® Appliance by NextGen Healthcare Software

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