Overview
This document was created for helping Wallboard partners in case of an on-premise server implementation design.
Wallboard is a digital signage platform that delivers visual and numerical information to the connected media players and client applications. It can be used for several different use cases, but the design of the software platform was focusing on this.
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About server sizing
More info about server prerequisites: https://wallboard.info/knowledge-base/server-prerequisites/
About server maintenance
Backup and restore guide: https://wallboard.info/knowledge-base/server-backup-guide/
Monitoring guide: https://wallboard.info/knowledge-base/server-monitoring/
Logging guide: https://wallboard.info/knowledge-base/server-logging/
Database and file system
The Wallboard system uses MySQL 5.7 and the local file system within the provided Docker environment, but it can be configured to use a central file system and database for safety and high availability.
Public services
Wallboard server communicates (when available) the following services from the public services of Wallboard. When the communication to the *.wallboard.info is not available these services will not be able to work properly:
- Weather information, public image file services, live/public RSS feeds, and services
- Youtube videos, Google Widgets
- KeyCloak (SSO) user authentication
If the server is not able to communicate to license.wallboard.info then the renewal of the license file will fail. For this case Wallboard can provide a perpetual license, for this please contact Wallboard.
The server needs to communicate to an SMTP server to be able to send out email notifications (user registration, forgotten passwords, alerts).
More info about services: https://wallboard.info/knowledge-base/server-configuration/
Scaling with Device Manager Servers (DMS)
More info: https://wallboard.info/knowledge-base/dms-device-manager-server/
High availability
Wallboard provides only cold server High availability solution, where the files and the database are provided by a HA solution of the customer, the Active Wallboard Server manages the system, but in case of a disaster, the cold backup computer is wakened up and registered with the same IP address.