System management for Content Delivery
System management and administration for the Content Delivery server.
- How to safely shut down Apache Tomcat
Safely shutting down the Tomcat web application server is critical to maintaining the integrity of the Content Delivery database. - Specifying the initial topic
When you open a publication, the information you initially see is derived from the map. Instead of displaying this map data, Content Delivery lets you nominate an initial topic of your choosing that displays your preferred content. - Uploading a publication into Content Delivery
When you install Content Delivery, you will want to upload, prepare, and make your publications visible. Follow these steps to upload your publications into Content Delivery. - User, Permission, and Group Management
Content Delivery provides two methods of user authentication. To administer and authenticate users when they log on, you can use Content Delivery itself or you can use Active Directory (known as single sign-on). - Security
Describes how to enable SSL and how to secure content. - Application URL
Configuring the Content Delivery URL may be important to help the application fit into an existing web architecture or to allow it to be indexed by search engines. - Tuning Performance
Increase memory, enabling caching, GZIP compression, and other methods can be used to tune the performance of the system. - Monitoring and Testing the System
There are various ways of viewing the system status, performing tests, and monitoring the system. - Moving the database
Access restrictions, disk space availability, or other issues might require moving the Content Delivery database from the Content Delivery installation directory to another location. - Deleting the database
If SDL provided the Web application server, delete the database after you have backed it up by removing the data subdirectory of the SDL Knowledge Center home directory. - Changing the automated XML database backup settings
The backup schedule is specified during the initial installation. This procedure shows how to change that schedule after the initial installation.