One of the most important aspects of the Captools/net system architecture for multi-user systems is the ability for the system to scale to handle more users and more data, typical of a large office situation. This can be accomplished using multiple CPU's. The simplest such multi-CPU configuration would be to place the database on one computer and then place the Captools/net applications on a second computer:
Additional System Scaling - More complex schemes can be established to use additional server-side CPU's, to accomplish additional scaling. One of these is depicted as follows:
This scheme uses a load balancer to field the data requests from the client computers and feed them to the appropriate server CPU. Captools/net server applications and the SQL database may or may not reside on the same server CPU, depending upon configuration. Users who expect that they will need to setup a multi-CPU system should contact Captools Company for more details on suggested hardware, software and layout.