Replicated Password Storage

Once deployed, ID-Archive™ becomes an essential part of an organization's IT infrastructure, since it alone houses administrative credentials to thousands of networked devices. An outage in ID-Archive would mean that administrative access to a range of devices is interrupted -- a major outage to IT service.

Since servers occasionally break down, ID-Archive supports load balancing and data replication between multiple physical servers. Any data updates written to its credential database are replicated, in real time, across all servers.

In short, ID-Archive incorporates a highly available, replicated, multi-master architecture.

To provide out-of-the-box data replication, ID-Archive includes a built-in database engine, which stores the same data tables, including encrypted credentials, on each server. These files are in an industry standard format (.DBF), accessible by almost every spreadsheet and reporting program available. Data replication is handled by this built-in engine, making it both simple and advisable for organizations to build a highly-available ID-Archive server cluster, spanning multiple servers, with each server placed in a different physical site.

This multi-site, multi-master replication is configured at no additional cost, beyond that of the hardware for additional servers, and with little administrative effort.