Whitepaper

High Availability Documentum Docbases

2013
HariKishan Masapu
 

Abstract
EMC Documentum Content Server software manages repositories and provides
content management capabilities. Content Server coordinates the different forms of 
data to create the object-based repository. This Whitepaper will provide the process
of installing Documentum Content Server to work in a Clustered Mode where two
different Content Servers located on two different systems point to the same
repository.
 

Table of Contents

General Architecture...................................................................................................4
Pre-Requisites ...........................................................................................................5
Installation of the Primary Content Server .....................................................................6
Installation of Secondary Content Server ....................................................................28
Testing Procedure to Ensure that Clustering Works fine.................................................31
 

Clustering Documentum Docbases for Load

Balancing and High Availability

General Architecture

Fig: High Level Architecture followed in this whitepaper 

Note: This Whitepaper doesn’t talk about the Application Server Clustering/ Load
Balancing.
 

Pre-Requisites

The following are the pre-requisites for the installation of the above mentioned
configuration:

Configuration Item Pre-requisites

The Hardware should be as per the
recommendations given by EMC in
Content Server Release Notes. The
Content Servers should be installed
on two different machines. The
Oracle Server can reside on the
same machine as any of the
content server or it can be an
Hardware independent server
The Operating system should be as
per the recommendations given by
EMC in Content Server Release
Notes. The OS used for this
Operating System exercise is Windows 2008 R2
The JDK version used for this
JDK exercise is JDK 1.6 Update 27
The Documentum version used for
Documentum this exercise is Documentum 6.x
The Oracle version used for this
Oracle exercise is Oracle 10g R3
The Application Server used for this
Application Server exercise is Apache Tomcat 7
 

Installation of the Primary Content Server

The following are the steps for the installation of the primary content Server:

1 Welcome screen for content server

This screen gives us the list of the applications that will be

installed during the installation of content server.

License agreement to accept the terms and conditions

 

3 Documentum Content server installation directory

Mention the location where content server will be installed

4 Developer documentation

Check box selection to install the developer documentation