Content Engine is the content-management component of IBM® FileNet® P8 platform. To set up Content Engine, you install the content-management server software on an application server, and then configure and deploy the Content Engine web application. You must also configure the Global Configuration Data (GCD), create the FileNet P8 domain, and create at least one object store. The GCD contains system information about your particular configuration. The object stores contain information about the documents, records, forms, and other business objects that you store in your IBM FileNet P8 system.
You install the Content Engine software once on each web application server in your environment. You can configure and deploy one or more Content Engine application instances on that server. A single Content Engine application instance equates to one deployed application on your application server.
When you deploy Content Engine in a WebSphere® Application Server non-managed environment, install and configure Content Engine on a single server in the environment. After deploying the bootstrapped Content Engine EAR file on the initial server, copy the bootstrapped EAR file to the other servers. On each additional server, configure the LDAP provider, the JDBC data sources, and the login modules. Then deploy the bootstrapped EAR file that was copied from the initial server.
Content Engine depends on the application server technology for its managed deployment capability. When you deploy Content Engine in a JBoss Application Server non-managed environment, install and configure Content Engine on an initial server in the environment, and then copy the Content Engine EAR file from the initial server to the other servers in the environment.