Content Platform Engine, Version 5.2.1              

Global configuration databases

The global configuration database contains definitions of the common set of attributes that control functional characteristics of the collection of resources and services for the FileNet® P8 domain it represents.

The global configuration database provides hierarchical object storage and contains bootstrap data and global configuration information for the FileNet P8 domain. The global configuration database defines domain resources such as object store databases, full-text index areas, fixed content storage areas, content cache areas and marking sets. The global configuration database can contain sensitive information.

Only specified users or groups, typically administrators, have read and write access to the data contained within the global configuration database.

The information that is stored in the global configuration database is essential to Content Platform Engine. When a Content Platform Engine server is started, the global configuration data is read, and the data is cached in memory. If the global configuration database becomes unavailable, the Content Platform Engine system can continue processing in a limited mode as long as the information is available in memory. The global configuration data is managed as follows:



Last updated: October 2015
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