Content Server Architecture Questions

Does anyone have any experience in setting up multiple content serveres to try to relieve network and bandwidth issues. We would like to setup mulitipe serves to decrease the load "over the wire". Is there a way to cache or map the same content on each of these servers back to one RCO on the application server?
Thanks
Steve

There is no way to do this out-of-the-box. The workarounds I have seen have involved setting up multible RCO's with the same content but placed on different servers. This then also involves the learners having to choose between multible courses with the same content, therefore this workaround has not be used a lot.
Regards
Anders

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Questions for Content Server

Dear All;
l have setup the Content server in Windows 2003 Standard Edition using the filesystem storage (not the MaxDB database), and the size of the document could be approximately 80GB (for the next few years), l didn't setup the Cache server.
All the attachment in the ECC will store into this External SAP Content Server.
Question 1:
Can anyone advise whether the Content Server(filesystem) will be having performance issue while store/retrieve documents? Is there any way to improve the performance of the Content Server?
Question 2:
Security. what are the necessary security option that l need to configure for the Content server? at the moment, the Windows server still configure as full access for the Content Repository folder. Otherwise the ECC will be having access denied problem when communicating with the Content Server.
Question 3:
There are some attachment in ECC, how to l move those documents to Content Server?
Please advise.
Many thanks
Jordan

When I say use certificates, there should be a checkbox with "check signature". This ensure that only sap machines with an active certificate can access the content server.
On the file system, I would ensure that no users have access to the file system through the backend. If they can modify documents, you will be sitting with major problems from a document integrity and legal perspective.
On the issue of migration, there is an oss note for the migration of data from one repository to another for archivelink.
Check note number 1043676
Symptom
You have created a new repository, and would like to migrate the ArchiveLink Documents to the new repository.
Other terms
Migration of documents, ArchiveLink, repository
Reason and Prerequisites
This report helps migration of ArchiveLink documents.
To use this report effectively, you would need to ensure that you apply the note 732436. However, this note will allow the migration of documents from and to type of repositories which are supported by ArchiveLink. The types of repositories that are supported by ArchiveLink are HTTP, RFC and R/3 Database.
Solution
Before you execute the report, you must set up a repository that can
store the documents (transaction OAC0). The repository may be in an
external archive(connected via HTTP or RFC) or (as of Basis Release 6.10) in the OLTP database of the SAP system. You can also use SAP Content Server as an external archive for storing documents.
The report has the following parameters:
OLD_ARC ID of the old repository previously used
NEW_ARC ID of the new repository
TEST_RUN: If you enable this, only a test run occurs, copy of documents does not occur.
DEL_FILE: If you enable this, then the files would be deleted from the old repository.
Launch the transaction SE38 and create a program with the name ZMIGRATE_ARCHIVELINK_FILES. Once the program is created, now copy the code from the correction instruction.

Content server pros and cons when compared to others

Hi DMS Gurus,
we are in a process of deciding which storage area to go for, and the client is kneen on going for a common existing server, as he is not kneen on spending on DMS content server.
my question are,
can we transform any existing file server or system (which is already in use) in to a content server just by installing windows 2003, and content server CDs. if so please tell me how to go about this.
is content server only the preferred storage to process the original files in through WEB DMS, or will Starage in SAP Database,Vault or Archive also will give this funtionality.
let me please know what are the major Pros (benifits) and cons (demerits) which Content server storage gives when compared to other storage.
Points for sure,
thanks in advance
Shanti

Shanti,
ArchiveLink:
You use SAP ArchiveLink as a communication interface between the document management system and the archiving systems. You can display the archived data using the SAP ArchiveLink viewer. Many times there are documents generated which needs to be tied to a DIR and hence you use the archive link to tie these to a transaction and the originals can be stored in the content server.
KPRO
KPRO apart from attaching the originals, it provides a wide range of other functionalities like content service,
where after every check in& checkout of DIR you can mantain the working copies in the content server.
Knowledge Provider is a component of SAP Web Application Server and provides the general infrastructure for storing and administrating documents.The Content Server and the Cache Server are server components that interact with the Knowledge Provider
Knowledge Provider provides the following services:
-Services for KPro client applications
-Document Management Framework (DMF)
-Document Management Service (DMS)
-Content Management Service (CMS)
-Integration of content servers and cache servers
-Content Server
-Allows you to integrate SAP Content Sever or
external content servers
-Cache Server
-Allows you to store documents close to the client (caching)
-Content Modeling Tool
-Document Modeling Workbench (DMWB)
Hope this helps
Paddy

Oracle VM Server for SPARC - network multipathing architecture question

This is a general architecture question about how to best setup network multipathing
I am reading the "Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.2 Administration Guide" but I can't find what I am looking for.
From reading the document is appears it is possible to:
(a) Configure IPMP in the Service Domain (pg. 155)
- This protects against link level failure but won't protect against the failure of an entire Service LDOM?
(b) Configure IPMP in the Guest Domain (pg. 154)
- This will protect against Service LDOM failure but moves the complexity to the Guest Domain
- This means the there are two (2) VNICs in the guest though?
In AIX, "Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) Failover" it presents a single NIC to the guest but can tolerate failure of a single VIOS (~Service LDOM) as well as link level failure in each VIO Server.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/aixpert/entry/shared_ethernet_adapter_sea_failover_with_load_balancing198?lang=en
Is there not a way to do something similar in Oracle VM Server for SPARC that provides the following:
(1) Two (2) Service Domains
(2) Network Redundancy within the Service Domain
(3) Service Domain Redundancy
(4) Simplify the Guest Domain (ie single virtual NIC) with no IPMP in the Guest
Virtual Disk Multipathing appears to work as one would expect (at least according the the documentation, pg. 120). I don't need to setup mpxio in the guest. So I'm not sure why I would need to setup IPMP in the guest.
Edited by: 905243 on Aug 23, 2012 1:27 PM

Hi,
there's link-based and probe-based IPMP. We use link-based IPMP (in the primary domain and in the guest LDOMs).
For the guest LDOMs you have to set the phys-state linkprop on the vnets if you want to use link-based IPMP:
ldm set-vnet linkprop=phys-state vnetX ldom-name
If you want to use IPMP with vsw interfaces in the primary domain, you have to set the phys-state linkprop in the vswitch:
ldm set-vswitch linkprop=phys-state net-dev=<phys_iface_e.g._igb0> <vswitch-name>
Bye,
Alexander.

Questions about application server architecture

Hello guys,
I have few questions about application server architecture�
I have a task to build a server application which will do the following: Clients (special java clients) will connect to it and send some data for further processing on server side. Chunks of data will be relatively small but they will take a lot of time for processing (it is ok that it will be quite slow).
Also server will run some sort of �database� where all clients� working data will be stored. So, in case a client loses its data he/she is always able to download it from the server.
For me it seems, like server will consist of the following components:
1. �Reception�. This part will be responsible for all client-communication procedures.
2. �Data storage�. This part will simply store all clients� data and provide some API interface for clients through �reception� to manage it (add/get/delete and so on).
3. �Processor�. Some sort of dummy-sophisticated module. It will take some input data from �data storage� when it receives order for this and process it. �Processor� will have two states: �busy� which means �processor� processing some data and �available� which means �processor� ready to process new data.
4. �Manager�. This part will always check �data storage� for new data and �processor� for availability. When �processor� and new data are available �manager� will make an order for �processor� to take new data from �data storage� and process it.
So, my question is the following: Which technology and approaches I should use to realize my plan?
I think that I can make �reception� as a Session Bean, but I don�t know yet, what are the best for the rest, for example �manager� and �processor�. I was thinking about writing my own application server (and I can do it), but I would like to learn j2ee technologies, so I think it is a perfect chance for me (I read a lot about j2ee before I wrote this post, but all examples have only �account�-�bill�-�money transfer� I think it is quite far away from reality or I am doing something wrong ;-)!
p.s. I am thinking about using JBoss as an Application Server. I tested it and wrote some tests. They work and run fast enough, so I like it. Moreover it has module architecture.
Please, give me some advises and tips!
Thank you in advance!

1. �Reception�. This part will be responsible for all
client-communication procedures.Session bean with remote interface.
2. �Data storage�. This part will simply store all
clients� data and provide some API interface for
clients through �reception� to manage it
(add/get/delete and so on).Session bean that will use entity beans or hibernate to work with persistant data.
3. �Processor�. Some sort of dummy-sophisticated
module.Use a message driven bean. Make Reception to enqueue a message when new data is available for processing. Processor will process the data and store the resut in database using Data Storage session bean.
4. �Manager�. This part will always check �data
storage� for new data and �processor� for
availability. When �processor� and new data are
available �manager� will make an order for
�processor� to take new data from �data storage� and
process it.It's redundand component, because application server will manage messages and processors.

JMS architecture question for fat client/server.

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Depending on your JMS provider, this may be a very suitable architecture. The Sun MQ JMS Cluster was architected exactly for this problem. If the number of connections onto a single broker becomes too much of a burden for this broker, it can be put into an MQ cluster and share the number of connections. Of course, the number of connections a broker can handle will be totally dependent on the resources available to it. OS, CPU, memory, other applications running on the same machine, etc....
TE

Some questions regarding SAP Content Server / Knowledge Warehouse

Hi,
we are thinking about SAP Knowledge Warehouse which needs the SAP Content Server.
Is it possible to install the Conent Server together with a Solution Manager System where we would like to use the Knowledge Warehouse functionallity? The Conent Server needs his own database instance. Is it possible to add it to the actually installed Maxdb for the Solution Manager?
What is the actual version of the Content Server 6.30 or 6.40? Is there no 7.0? What about the future of the Content Server?
We are running Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1. Is it possible to install the content server on the same machine? What about the database? Can I use the already installed DB of solution manager?
Thanks ahead
Bernd
Edited by: Bernd Speckmann on Apr 26, 2010 10:55 AM

Is it possible to install the Conent Server together with a Solution Manager System where we would like to use the Knowledge Warehouse functionallity?
If you have enougth resourses why not?
The Conent Server needs his own database instance.
This is are not true, you can install content server without MAX DB.
Is it possible to add it to the actually installed Maxdb for the Solution Manager?
Again why not, if you have correct max db version per PAM for content server (you need 2 DB instance second are for cache server) check pam for NW 7.0 (the PDF document) you find information about content server requirements here and in page --> Database components on same NW 7.0 PAM.
What is the actual version of the Content Server 6.30 or 6.40?
6.40 are last version,
We are running Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1. Is it possible to install the content server on the same machine?
Your OS are ? I'm install cont server 6.40 on system where NW 7.0 are installed without problem, do not know about NW EHP1 .... Good backup are start point .....
Regards.

ArchiveLink and External Content Server

Newbie question.
Well, we are going to try to implement ArchiveLink HTTP interface 4.5 for a DMS to be able to use it as certified external content server. We are planning to user java/jsp. We can specify content server as 'http://mycontentserver:8080' and in script 'contentserver.jsp'. That part I understand. SAP is going to call contentserver.jsp and will append a request like 'getDoc' to it along with other parameters like docId, contRep, authId, expiration etc. The URL will look like http://mycontentserver:8080/contentserver.jsp?getDoc&contRep&authId&expiration. Is it correct that the contentserver.jsp will have to parse these parameters and create a getDocument request understandable for the DMS? Secondly, what if the DMS is not storing documents in components? Do we then have to modify the underlying DMS architecture to make it support SAP document structure (one document can have one or many components)?
Regards,
-Y

Hello,
Unfortunately I have no answer for you be a small question,
Where can be found information on ArchiveLink HTTP interface 4.5 implementation, I intend to do the exact same thing as you for our DMS system.
Thank you,
Eric

Accessing Content Server documents directly

Hi All,
Due to our business being wound up we are mothballing our SAP systems. Currently we have Invoices stored in our Content Server, what we want to know is can we set up access direct to these Invoice Images without having to use SAP (if it was turned off) to access the images directly, can we access the content if we use/extract the object link held in table TOA01?
Thanks
Simon.

I would advise to ask in Weblogic and/or Identity Management forum, too.
With 11g, UCM is a J2EE application running on an application server. If yours runs behind the proxy, but your still need an access from the outside world, there are definitely ways how to achieve that (and in fact, it has very little to do with the fact that the application is UCM). I believe that before the right solution can be proposed, you will have to answer few questions (you mentioned SSO - does it apply for external users too?; what is the port number that UCM runs on? what's the overall architecture - clustering, load balancing, etc.?). It should be better if you are asked by someone who has done something similar before.

Accessing content-server content in pluggable navigation

Does anybody know of a way to access content from the content server in a pluggable navigation element? Through the API I have access to the activity space, and I know the item I want to retrieve from the content server.
Thanks in advance!

I would advise to ask in Weblogic and/or Identity Management forum, too.
With 11g, UCM is a J2EE application running on an application server. If yours runs behind the proxy, but your still need an access from the outside world, there are definitely ways how to achieve that (and in fact, it has very little to do with the fact that the application is UCM). I believe that before the right solution can be proposed, you will have to answer few questions (you mentioned SSO - does it apply for external users too?; what is the port number that UCM runs on? what's the overall architecture - clustering, load balancing, etc.?). It should be better if you are asked by someone who has done something similar before.

Content Server 6.40 on Windows 2003 64bit

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to find any kind of information on Content Server 6.40 on a 64 bit windows machine.
The latest doc I can find is about 6.30 on a windows 2000 machine.
The reason why i'm looking for this doc is because i have a lot of questions.
I installed CS 6.40 on the windows 2003 64bit machine with MaxDB 7.6.01.08. (Deliverd with 2004S SR2). During the install sapinst ask for the packages to install. When asking for Maxdb i give the path for "Maxdb_Windows_i86_64". After the install I see he installed the package "Maxdb_Windows_I386".
Why does he not install the 64bit version? Is it hard code to take the 32bit? so why giving the possibility to install the 64 bit for Maxdb?
after the install i downloaded the CD maxdb 7.6.03 (50092483_3) from sap and tried to install it with the new cd. Install is not working.
Even an upgrade of Maxdb from 32 bit to 32 bit and from 32 bit to 64 bit is not working.
I even tried to download the updates from mysql website which redirect to sdn.
I can't be the only one with this kind of problem.
hope there is some who can help me
thanks in advance.

logfile:
INSTALLER_INFO: Version = 7.6.06 Build 003-123-202-135
INSTALLER_INFO: Changelist = 202135
INSTALLER_INFO: MakeId = 357533
INSTALLER_INFO: Type = kit
SYS_INFO: Host name = BRASAPCS001
SYS_INFO: System = Windows
SYS_INFO: Architecture = AMD64
SYS_INFO: Version = NT 5.0
SYS_INFO: Subversion =
MSG: collector found 12 archives
WRN: software in package "DB Analyzer" (SDBANA.TGZ) isn't runnable on your system
magic string: MS Windows 32-bit i386 executable
YOUR SYSTEM: architecture = AMD64
YOUR SYSTEM: subversion =
YOUR SYSTEM: system = Windows
YOUR SYSTEM: version = NT 5.0
WRN: software in package "Base" (SDBBAS.TGZ) isn't runnable on your system
magic string: MS Windows 32-bit i386 executable
YOUR SYSTEM: architecture = AMD64
YOUR SYSTEM: subversion =
YOUR SYSTEM: system = Windows
YOUR SYSTEM: version = NT 5.0
WRN: software in package "Database Connectivity" (SDBC.TGZ) isn't runnable on your system
magic string: MS Windows 32-bit i386 executable dll
YOUR SYSTEM: architecture = AMD64
YOUR SYSTEM: subversion =
YOUR SYSTEM: system = Windows
YOUR SYSTEM: version = NT 5.0
WRN: software in package "Database Kernel" (SDBKRN.TGZ) isn't runnable on your system
magic string: MS Windows 32-bit i386 executable
YOUR SYSTEM: architecture = AMD64
YOUR SYSTEM: subversion =
YOUR SYSTEM: system = Windows
YOUR SYSTEM: version = NT 5.0
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YOUR SYSTEM: architecture = AMD64
YOUR SYSTEM: subversion =

Installation problem in Oracle Content Server 10g

Hi,
I am trying to install 'ORACLE CONTENT SERVER 10g', as a part of this trying to click on 'Installer.exe' in '/win32'. When i click this installer.exe, it is prompting one COMMAND PROMPT SCREEN and it is disappearing soon. In fact it was suppose to ask language preference as per installation guide.
Dont know how to resolve this issue. please help me out.
Thanks in advance,

pparkko wrote:
With this type of behaviour, you always need to find out the real error.
Try opening a command prompt (cmd) and running the command from the command line.
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Content Server problem after 5.0.2 upgrade

Hi,
We've just upgraded our staging environment from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 and have lost all branding. The diagnostic script reports the following error:
==========
Community Branding Image Publishing Target : FAIL Settings
Community Branding Image Publish File Location: file://localhost/C:/ProgramFiles/plumtree/ptimages/imageserver/plumtree/portal/templates
Community Branding Image Publish Browser Location: http://<SERVERNAME>/imageserver/plumtree/portal/templates
Community Image FTP User Name:
Community Image FTP Password:
Possible Resolution
The file could not be found at the browser locationEnsure the community branding settings in content.properties are correct. The file location and browser location must be valid paths.
Error Details
Exception Message: Connect Failed. HTTP response code: 404
======================
I tried resolving both the file location and the http address from within the Content Server box and was able to without problem so I know it's not these it can't see.
I checked the pcs.log and the following error is reported:
======================
com.plumtree.openfoundation.io.XPFileNotFoundException: jscomponent file for jscontrols not found or failed to load.Exceptions encountered: - com.plumtree.openfoundation.io.XPFileNotFoundException: Failed to receive response from http://<PUBLICURL>/imageserver/plumtree/common/private/js/jscontrols/jscomponent.xmlin the alloted time (10000ms).======================
It appears that the Content Server is trying to access this xml file via the public url for the image server which, due to firewall configurations in this environment, it won't be able to do. I'd like to be able to change how it looks for this file to be http://<SERVERNAME>/imageserver rather than http://<PUBLICURL>/imageserver
Where is it getting this from for me to change it?
Thanks in advance for your advice, hope my problem description makes sense :-)
Anita

Hi Diane,
No, we haven't fully resolved this yet. In addition to the issue listed we've come across a number of others that look like problems from install. We've reached the point where it's looking more effective to try and uninstall Content Server and do a clean install from scratch rather than debug every little thing.
As part of the new install we're changing the architecture to create an internal ImageServer on the CS server and then use a scheduled task to push everything out to the external ImageServer on the portal box overnight. This should get around a number of the firewall and dns issues currently making communication between the two quite difficult.
We recently installed another 5.0.2 portal in a different environment and have had none of the same issues with it so we're a little perplexed. When we get this resolved I'll be happy to write a note about what it was. In the meantime if you get anywhere with yours please let us know.
cheers
Anita

SAPDB Migration for Content server

Hi Experts
we have a SAP content server 6.3 running on 32 bit windows on SAPDB 7.3 .
We are planning to move this to a Unix box ( AIX or Solaris .. not decided yet). Is there a comprehensive guide available about the procedure we need to follow ?
1. Do we need to upgrade the source DB before migration ?
2. As per MaxDB admin guide database copy from IA32 to unix does not work and as per note 962019 we need to use loadercli. Any tips on loadercli use would be welcome
3. Any relevant information from past experience of similar exercise
4. Does SAP support this migration if we do not buy the MaxDB migration service from SAP ?

Hi there,
> Note"962019" mentions that:
>
> "Note that the target system must be installed at least with 7.6.05 build 11. An upgrade to this version does not help. Stop the target system (shutdown) and delete the database instance (drop database). SAPinst provides the option 'uninstall'. Here, you are led through the uninstalling process. The repeat the software installation with 7.6.05 build 11 or higher."
Yep, this is necessary to make the handling of source databases possible, that still have the _UNICODE parameter set to FALSE.
> I can only find MAXDB 7.6.03 installation CD on SAP SWDC, no 7.6.05 build 11 or higher, can I install 7.6.03 first, then update patch to 7.6.05 or higher?
Actually you don't need the installation CD.
The "patch" package contains everything you need to perform a full installation.
MaxDB patches are not really patches but always full installations.
Therefore you can either use the SDBSETUP or SDBINST tool (make sure to get the path-settings for <indep_data>/<indep_programs>/<dependend_programs> right then!) or you replace the installation package on the 7.6.03 CD you have with the 7.6.05 installation package from the patch download page in the service marketplace [http://service.sap.com/swcenter-3pmain].
Ok, hope that answers your questions.
Make sure to test the procedure before actually trying to perform the migration.
Very often questions and problems come up during the first time the process is done - and if that happens to be your productive migration weekend, well, cross-fingers that you get a MaxDB expert supporter on weekend duty then ...
regards,
Lars

Retrieving Invoice images from Content Server

Background
My problem is, that I need to retrieve images from the Content Server and save them on a local drive with a path provided by the user. Metadata that is available for the image includes Object ID and the URL to the image on the server.
However, the Object ID is not valid for DMS, so the Function Groups for this are invalid. The cl_gui_* function groups have several usable Function Modules, but the URL link provided for the image is something like this:
http://xxxxxx.xxxxxx.com:XXXX/ContentServer/ContentServer.dll?get&pVersion=0046&contRep=Z2&docId=123AB1C123D12E12345.... etc.
What makes the cl_gui FM unable to work, is the :, ?, % and & characters in the string - which makes the FMs look at the URL as invalid.
I have also tried more or less the entire content of FM in the SCMS_* Function Group (containing FMs for the Content Server), but to no avail.
Question
So, now to my question: Is there any way to translate the URL provided so the cl_gui FMs can understand it? Or, should I go the other way around and fetch the Invoice Image using the provided Object ID?
All needed at my program to finish off, is a method to retrieve the given images and save them to a local path.
I hope the Guru's of the SDN will be able to help me here
regards
Anders Haugbølle
Edited by: Anders Haugbølle on Feb 4, 2009 12:53 PM

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