Evidian
Fives Syleps
ProfileFives Syleps implements high availability of its ERP thanks to Evidian
SafeKit.

• Fives Syleps is acompany specialized inautomation of industrialprocesses.

Ensure availability of strategic business activities in the factory
Fives Syleps is an editor and integrator of IT solutions for industrial process.
Federating complementary areas of expertise in IT - Transitics - Robotics, it offers all
actors of the Supply Chain the guarantee of a complete and competitive offer in themanagement and automation of industrial processes.

Users• Factories equipped by
Fives Syleps rely on itsERP.

The Fives Syleps ERP ensures global control of the logistics chain and controls thestrategic functions of the company in real time: purchasing, sales, storage,production, order preparation and shipping.

Challenge• Bring a High
Availability option tothe Fives Syleps ERP.

The Fives Syleps ERP optimizes the performance and management of logistics centersand SMEs, particularly in the food industry (fresh, ultra-fresh, frozen, dry products).
Regarding the criticality of the environments in which it is implemented, a computer
failure must be supported with automatic failover in order not to block the entire
industrial process.

Key results• Implementation of asimple software
clustering solution.
• Uniform highavailability on Linuxand Windows.
• A solution with loadbalancing, automatic
failover and real-timedata replication.

Reasons for choosing the SafeKit solution
To ensure high availability of its ERP, Fives Syleps chose Evidian's SafeKit solution
for the following reasons:• The solution is purely software and simple. It is implemented on standard
servers without requiring a shared disk on a SAN. It allows servers to be placed
in remote computer rooms.
•Wellingtondéplo• The solution works the same way on Linux and Windows. With the same tool,
the same configuration, the same online commands, the same administration
console, all clusters will be administered.
• The product provides 3 functionalities: load sharing between several servers inthe same cluster, automatic application recovery on failure and real-time data
replication.

Use case > Software editor and high availability

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SafeKit clusters implemented with the Fives Syleps ERP"The automated factories
that we equip rely on ourERP. It is not possible that
our ERP is out of service due
to a computer failure.
Otherwise, the whole activityof the factory stops.
We chose the Evidian
SafeKit high availability
product because it is aneasy to use solution. It is
implemented on standard
servers and does not require
the use of shared disks on aSAN and load balancing
network boxes.
It allows servers to be put inremote computer rooms. In
addition, the solution ishomogeneous for Linux andWindows platforms. And it
provides 3 functionalities:
load balancing between
servers, automatic failoverand real-time datareplication.”

A SafeKit application cluster is characterized by:• 2 servers with the same Operating System: Linux or Windows• The Fives Systel ERP installed on both servers• SafeKit installed on both servers• A SafeKit module which customizes the solution for the ERP
A SafeKit module consists of restart scripts and a configuration file: it defines thehigh availability and load sharing solution for an application. Integrating anapplication with SafeKit therefore involves writing your own SafeKit module. Precustomized modules are available for many databases.
Fives Syleps has developed several SafeKit modules for high availability and loadload balancing of its ERP. With this purely software integration, Fives Syleps masters
the high availability solution throughout its software publishing process:development, validation, installation and after-sales support.

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