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Creating a Content Distribution Profile

A content distribution profile is where you define which servers are in the content delivery group, which publications the content delivery servers will have, the schedule by which the group is sent updated packages, and which package the group receives.

About this task

Defining the content distribution group allows you to determine which content delivery servers should receive the same configuration and content. Content distribution groups can be used to synchronize a horizontal array of servers behind a load balancer, or can be used to synchronize a set of geographically disparate servers. For example, you could create a content distribution group containing five servers behind a single load balancer in a single physical location, or a content delivery group containing just North American servers (Toronto, New York, Los Angeles) and another content distribution group for Asia (South Korea, Japan, China).

Procedure

  1. If you are in a Content Delivery tool, click Home in the breadcrumb trail.
    The Content Delivery landing page appears.
  2. In the Administration Tools pane, click Manage Application.
    The Manage Application page appears.
  3. In the left pane, click Distribution.
  4. Click Add Distribution Profile.
  5. Enter a name for the profile.
    Your profile name can only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores(A-Z, 0-9, '_') and must be less than 32 characters.
    For example, if this profile is for North American content delivery servers, name the profile North_America.
  6. Select the configuration package that the content delivery servers in this profile will receive.
    A configuration package includes the files and config items that you want to use on your content delivery servers.
    A configuration package cannot includes publications. Any package that includes publications will not be available to select during this step.
    Only configuration packages which have been previously exported will be available to select during this step. See Defining a Configuration Package.
  7. Do the following to add content delivery servers:
    1. Ensure that the server you want to add is available. When you add a server to a content delivery profile, Content Delivery pings the server, and will not add it to the profile if it is not reachable.
    2. On the Content Delivery Servers tab, click Add Server.
    3. Enter a name for the server.
      This does not have to be the server's host name, but should be descriptive of the server.
    4. Enter the fully qualified URL to the server, including the port number (if different from standard port) and application context.
      For example, http://distribution.lc.example.com/ContentDelivery/ (where lc refers to an example related to Content Delivery, and distribution specifies it further as a distribution server) with ContentDelivery as the context.
    5. Click Add Server.
    6. Repeat steps b-e for each server you want to add to the content delivery group.
  8. On the Publications tab, next to each language version, click one of the following:
    OptionDescription
    IncludeIncludes the language version in the content package that is distributed to the content delivery server. The language version will be installed or updated on the content delivery server.
    ExcludeDoes not include the language version in the content package. If the language version already exists on the content delivery server, it is not updated, nor is it deleted. The default selection is Exclude.
    DeleteRemoves the language version from the content delivery server.
    The Visible column indicates whether a language version is visible to users. A language version's visibility is carried over to the content delivery server -- that is, if it is visible on the distribution server, it will be visible on the content delivery servers.
  9. On the Schedule tab, do the following:
    1. For Days of the Week, click (CTRL-click to select multiple) the days of the week on which you want to push packages to the content delivery servers listed in this profile.
    2. For Time of Day, select the time of day (based on the distribution server's clock) when packages are pushed.
  10. Click Save.