ECMS Server Architecture, Security and Backup Plan

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 Table of Contents
1. ECMS Server Physical Architecture....................................................................................4
2. ECMS Server Data Flow Architecture................................................................................5
3. Security and Data backup plan..........................................................................................6

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1. ECMS Server Physical Architecture

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2. ECMS Server Data Flow Architecture

Primary Server activities

 Content developer will publish content to primary server and creates courses using
these content.
 All Active Directory Server details are configured at primary server.
 Contents will be synced to all available content servers.

Content Server activities

 The content server will authenticate end-user and will retrieve the course details
from primary server.
 The results and usage details of content will be published to primary server.

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3. Security and Data backup plan

End User Authentication types

 ECMS allows 3 types of authentication. i.e Form authentication, Single Sign On & Live
Authentication (using Microsoft Active Directory)
 For Live Authentication with LDAP servers, a common “Service Account” to be
created at all LDAP servers with full access to authenticate user. The Identity of IIS of
Primary server will be configured to this “Service Account”

ECMS Server Backup plans

 Database backup to be taken periodically using database tools

 ‘’Content Repository’’ backup to be taken periodically using ``File Server`` backup
tools.

ECMS Server Restore plans

 Install ECMS Server Media.

 Restore database from backup using database tools.
 Restore ``Content Repository`` from backup server using ``File Server`` tools.
 Configure ECMS and IIS to point restored database and content repository.

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