Axilon at a High Level

For each unique industrial environment, Axilon’s proprietary software creates a “clone” of the application stack of a given environment. This clone is programmable, isolated from the primary system(s), and simple to interact with. It allows for the validation of changes, standardization of deployment templates, and the preservation of uptime across the entire industrial stack via seamless switch-over mechanisms (for more, see the homepage).

Axilon integrates with all three layers of the industrial software infrastructure stack in the following ways:

Networking Layer

Axilon integrates with this layer via a networking daemon whose function is to automate and facilitate the transition between lower-level devices and an environment’s primary systems and between those devices and the Axilon “clone.” This daemon acts as a load balancer, handling the transition seamlessly, without dropping a packet or inducing downtime, and is built to fit into any networking topology or packet transfer schema.

Application Infrastructure Layer

Axilon integrates with this layer via a specialized orchestrator, which performs all the tasks of image management and application versioning required to produce instances of the same baseline applications used by the primary systems. The orchestrator is built to be easy to interface with and manageable either from a central location or in a distributed fashion.

Application State Layer

Axilon integrates with this layer via application-specific configuration adapters that run on the primary system(s), as well as a Configuration Management Engine that processes extracted configurations and passes them between the clone and the primary. This system can interface with both common and legacy applications without significant user setup, and captures application-specific files and database information in order to ensure the “clone” and primary stay up to date with one another.