Table Of Contents - Dell DX6000 Setup And Configuration Manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to DX Content Router ........................................................................................ 1
1.1. Overview of DX Content Router ................................................................................. 1
1.2. About this Document ................................................................................................. 1
1.2.1. Audience ....................................................................................................... 1
1.2.2. Scope ............................................................................................................ 1
2. Replication Topologies ......................................................................................................... 2
2.1. Disaster Recovery ..................................................................................................... 2
2.2. Mirrored Clusters ...................................................................................................... 2
2.3. Multi-Site Disaster Recovery ...................................................................................... 2
2.4. Content Distribution ................................................................................................... 3
3. DX Content Router Services ................................................................................................ 4
3.1. Basic Architecture ..................................................................................................... 4
3.1.1. Structure of a DX Content Router Node ........................................................... 5
3.1.2. Publisher Service ........................................................................................... 7
3.1.3. Replicator Service ........................................................................................ 10
4. Installation ......................................................................................................................... 11
4.1. Requirements .......................................................................................................... 11
4.1.1. Operating System ......................................................................................... 11
4.1.2. 3rd Party Package Pre-requisites .................................................................. 11
4.1.3. Network ....................................................................................................... 11
4.2. Installing and Configuring DX Content Router Services .............................................. 13
4.2.1. Installing Services ......................................................................................... 13
4.2.2. Configuring Services and Rules .................................................................... 13
4.3. Upgrading DX Content Router ................................................................................. 14
4.3.1. Upgrading from 1.x ....................................................................................... 14
4.3.2. Upgrading from 2.x ....................................................................................... 14
4.4. Removing DX Content Router .................................................................................. 14
5. Running and Managing DX Content Router ......................................................................... 15
5.1. Starting DX Content Router Services ....................................................................... 15
5.2. Publisher and Replicator Shutdown .......................................................................... 15
5.3. Customizing the Standard Rule Sets ........................................................................ 15
5.3.1. Publish all streams on a single channel ......................................................... 15
5.3.2. Publish all streams on two separate channels ................................................ 16
5.3.3. Publish streams with header 'someHeaderName' on one channel and all
others except text files to a second ........................................................................ 16
5.3.4. Complex Content Metadata Analysis ............................................................. 16
5.4. Using the Publisher Console .................................................................................... 18
5.4.1. Publisher Console layout: ............................................................................. 19
5.5. HTTP Status Reporting for Publisher and Replicator ................................................. 21
5.5.1. Publisher Response ...................................................................................... 21
5.5.2. Replicator Response .................................................................................... 22
5.5.3. Request for Source Cluster IP Addresses ...................................................... 23
6. Support for Content Restoration and Fail-Over .................................................................... 24
6.1. Administrative Disaster Recovery ............................................................................. 24
6.2. Content Mirroring .................................................................................................... 24
6.3. Application-Assisted Fail-Over .................................................................................. 24
A. Content Metadata .............................................................................................................. 25
A.1. System Metadata .................................................................................................... 25
A.2. Content File Server Metadata .................................................................................. 25
A.2.1. Custom Metadata ......................................................................................... 25
B. DX Content Router Configuration ....................................................................................... 26
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