Server Architecture Overview

PhixFlow is built on a single Java-based architecture i.e. it is not made up of several products with different architectures bolted together. There are two main elements in the server architecture:

• PhixFlow Application Server - The PhixFlow application server is a Java-based application which runs within an Apache Tomcat container. PhixFlow supports installation on both Linux and Windows based servers.

• Database Server - PhixFlow uses any major JDBC compliant database to store both configuration data and the results of analysis on data collected from other systems.

See System Requirements and Compatibility for information about supported versions of third party software that should be installed on the PhixFlow server, in particular, databases, Java and Tomcat.

Figure 1 shows the most typical deployment of PhixFlow in which the application server and database server run on separate machines, however, for small proof of concept installations a single server may be used to host both the application and database servers.

Figure 1  Dual Server High Level Architecture

Example network topology 1

The diagram below shows Illustration of common network topology for PhixFlow deployments on Azure. This can be applied in a similar to any virtualised environment. Key symbols are:

Symbol	Description
	Azure Network Security Group (NSG) - this can be any Layer 3/4 firewall
	MariaDB database - this can be any of the supported database