Content Manager Enterprise Edition

Servers - Library server, mid-tier, and resource managers

Together, these servers provide transaction, security, process integration, and life cycle services as well as an open, comprehensive, and consistent framework for managing, sharing, reusing, and archiving all types of digitized content. Content can vary from HTML and XML Web content, document images, electronic office documents, and printed output to rich media such as digital audio and video.

The Library Server is the central source for indexing, describing, locating, organizing, and managing enterprise content. It supports the Content Manager data model, controls access to content, and manages transactions with referential integrity.

• Deep integration of the search engine with the underlying database in the Library Server supports search performance.
• A pre-built access control list on the Library Server supports user and user group privilege processing

The Mid-tier Server provides the Content Manager API toolkit and manages connections to the Library Server and to the Resource Managers. It is the Web-exploiting broker that:

• mediates between the browser client and the Library Server.
• leverages IBM® WebSphere® product families' connection pooling and load balancing capabilities

The Resource Managers (formerly known as Object Servers) are specialized repositories optimized to manage the storage, archiving, retreival, and delivery of enterprise content.

• The Content Manager Resource Manager stores documents, images, and multimedia resources. (Streaming is managed by IBM Content Manager VideoCharger™, an optional feature of V8). It supports object management on many levels:
  • Closely associated objects can be assigned to a document;
  • Documents can be grouped in one or more folders; and
  • Folders can be placed inside of other folders.
  • Users can assign indices to objects in the library to facilitate storage and retrieval. A search algorithm optimizes the time required to locate information. The system virtually eliminates loss and misplacement of file folders which is common in manual processing of information.
• The Content Manager OnDemand Resource Manager stores print output. (CM OnDemand for Multiplatforms is an optional feature of V8)

Supported Content Manager V8 for Multiplatforms server environments and databases include:

Windows 2000 Server Logo Certification provides single sign-on capability where users can sign on once to access both Windows and Content Manager on enabled Windows servers.

Tivoli® Ready Certification lets system administrators:

• view the overall topology of the Library and resource managers through the Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager (GEM) or the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC).
• view and monitor certain critical server processes
• start and stop the servers from the GEM console.

Reliability, availability, serviceability and performance advantages are superior with:

• problem analysis/trace tools
• rapid resource manager startup
• System Managed Storage (SMS) server orderly shutdown
• AIX resource manager auto recovery
• large object retrieval optimization

Unicode enablement simplifies support for international languages

• Content Manager can convert to and from Unicode when storing or retrieving data from a database.
• A single code page handles language conversions eliminating the requirement for specifying multiple code pages.