Destination groups
A group combines several destinations, and a route can send to a group as to any destination. Configuration › Destinations › Add destination, kind Group.
Failover
Section titled “Failover”Everything goes to the first reachable member, in the order listed: a primary PACS, then its standby. When the primary is back, traffic returns to it.
Balance
Section titled “Balance”Studies are spread over the reachable members, and all instances of a study go to the same member, so each member holds whole studies. Use it for several AI servers, or archive nodes that share the work.
When a member is down
Section titled “When a member is down”- A member that cannot be reached for the group’s failover delay (default 60 s) is skipped.
- Instances already queued for it through the group move to another member, keeping their priority.
- Idle unreachable members are checked with C-ECHO every 30 s, so traffic returns once they recover.
- Idle members that are reachable are checked too, every 5 minutes by default (see idle checks): one that went down overnight is skipped from the first study of the morning.
- The history records instances moved this way as Rerouted.
Members are ordinary destinations with their own settings (transfer syntaxes, tag edits, schedules). A member can be used on its own by other routes too.