The following table lists the types derived from IFixedContentDevice .

Derived Types

Type Description
ICenteraFixedContentDevice Represents the description of an EMC Centera fixed content device.
ICMODFixedContentDevice Represents the description of an IBM® Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) external fixed content storage device.
IGenericFixedContentDevice Represents the description of a generic fixed content device. The GenericFixedContentDevice object provides an extensible mechanism for implementing interfaces to fixed content devices not currently supported by FileNet. The ConfigurationParameters property provides the set of parameters that will be passed to a custom implementation of a fixed content provider used to connect to the fixed content device. Note that there is no fixed format for the ConfigurationParameters property (other than, it must be a string that the custom implementation of the fixed content provider can understand and parse). This object is for future use only and is not currently supported by FileNet.
IIICEFixedContentDevice Represents an external fixed content device accessible via an instance of IBM Content Integrator (formerly known as Information Integrator Content Edition or IICE). This representation serves a two-fold purpose: to identify and describe the external device, and to configure the behavior of the Content Federation Service (CFS) with respect to that device. CFS uses metadata from the external device to create and update FileNet P8 federated documents. (For information on content federation, and on the CFS import process in particular, see the ICFSImportAgentConfiguration interface.)

As a content device description, this interface ties together these main entities:

  • Federator database - This database acts as a transmission medium between the CFS exporter that pulls metadata from the external device and the CFS importer that creates and updates FileNet P8 documents using the metadata. To specify the database instance to use, set these properties: FederationJNDIDataSource and FederationJNDIXADataSource.
  • External device/repository - The external device can be a Content Services repository or any other type of repository supported by CFS. To specify the external repository to use and to allow CFS to access it, set these properties: SourceRepositoryName, CFSUserName, and CFSPassword properties.

As a means for configuring the behavior of CFS with respect to the external device, this interface can affect FileNet P8 document updates. CFS periodically pulls metadata and content from the external repository to keep FileNet P8 documents in sync with any changes made to the corresponding external documents. To control how CFS performs these periodic updates, set the FederationUpdateHasPriority property.

IIMFixedContentDevice Represents the description of a FileNet Image Services fixed content device.
ISnapLockFixedContentDevice Represents the description of a NetApp SnapLock fixed content device.

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