XCP 2.0 Installation

Deploy xMS Agent on Apache Tomcat

This is part one of an additional guide to deploy the xms-server.war on a DIY Windows Environment. The next part describe the registration of an xCP environment manually.
If you are install xCP 2.0 on Windows you can download the compiled exe-package. The *.exe download package does not include the catalina.bat file, because the *.exe package installs tomcat as a Windows Service. The tomcat memory settings are set in the Apache Tomcat 7.0 Properties Application. The zipped package includes the catalina.bat file. The full requirements are listet on the D7 xMS preparation page.

1.      Stop Apache Tomcat 7.0 Services

2.      Copy the xms-server.war file in the Tomcat 7.0 webapps folder

3.      Rename the *.war extension to *.zip and extract the file and delete the original *.zip file afterwards

4.      Open cmd – the windows command center
navigate to \webapps\xms-server\WEB-INF

xcopy xms-agent-context.xml xms-server-context.xml

ensure that the xms-agent-context and the xms-server-context files are equal

<bean id="xmsServerConfigurator" class="com.documentum.xms.server.XmsServerConfiguration"> <!-- Whenever an xMS agent is being deployed, set applicationType to "AGENT_TYPE" --> <property name="applicationType" ref="AGENT_TYPE"/> </bean>

5.      Open the Apache Tomcat 7.0 Properties Application and set:
-XX:MaxPermSize=2048m

Apache Tomcat 7.0 Properties

6.      Start Apache Tomcat Services
wait >1 minutes until the xms-server is completely deployed

7.      check the deployment: http://<localhost>:<8080>/xms-server
port 8080 for non SSL / port 8443 for SSL connection

Testwebpage to check the xMS Agent and xMS registered environment

The heart of the xCelerated Management System version 1.0 are the xms-tools.

All files located in the bin folder of the xms-tools-1.0 package.

The tool include the Command Line Interface (CLI) , the xMS Agent, the xMS Server and some batch files.
The xms.bat is called CLI in the documentation and located in the mainbin folder. Ensure you have set thexms-server.properties file correctly (located in the folder config). The CLI is not only a small administrative command tool, you can display all environments (show-environments) or one in detail (show-environment-details –name test_xcp) , import and export the configuration, show/create/disable users and execute the deployment into the registed environment.

xMS Tools version 1.0
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The xMS Server is only available, if you have installed the vFabric tc Server in your VMWare environment.

The xMS Agent reffered to the xms-env-registration-ui.bat. In this user-interface you can add all your available Documentum components (eg.: Repository, CTS, CIS, BAM, etc). This Agent make your xCP Applications in your environment available.

This screenshot shows all the commands that are executed in the CLI.

The xMS Agent reffered to the xms-env-registration-ui.bat file. In this user-interface you can add all your available Documentum components (eg.: Repository, CTS, CIS, BAM, etc).

The manual registration is only necessary if you don’t use the xMS Server and the blueprint installation.

This Agent make your xCP application in your do-it-yourself-environment available.

If the utility is accessing the xMS Agent for the first time, it prompts you to set a password for the
default admin user. Use this password for subsequent access to the utility.

You do not have to create additional system accounts, because there can be only one SERVICE account per environment.

You can use the SERVICE_ENDPOINT system account type, if you want to create a generic account for use across several vDCs. SERVICE_ENDPOINT is specific to each environment, and you need to specify it in the environment profile XML file for each environment.

This screenshot was taken from the xMS Agent environment registration utility.

Register your environment manually. Create a new environment blueprinte file and register all the recommended Documentum components:
Repository: Content Server Ver.7.0
BAM: BAM-Server 2.0
App Host: Tomcat Server 7.0.29
Documentum Administrator: DA 7.0
Search: xPlore 1.3
BPS: Process Integrator 2.0
Content Intelligence Server: CIS 7.0
Content Transformation Server: CTS 7.0
(optional) Thumbnail Server 7.0

This screenshot displays the registration of the primary repository. You can add as many repositories you like.

Save your settings and restart the xMS Agent. Remember: the agent is part of the app server (Tomcat) webapps. Please restart the Tomcat services on your host windows server.
Wait until all webapps was successfully (re)deployed.