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Content Delivery Server Roles

Content Delivery Server Roles correspond to a specific feature or piece of functionality that deals with content published from Content Manager. The basic installation of the core software modules requires the installation of some of these Server Roles.

The following Content Delivery Server Roles are needed for a basic installation:

Content Deployer (HTTP or HTTPS) or Content Deployer (other protocols)
Each of these Server Roles receives and processes incoming content published from the Content Manager, and passes it on to the Storage Layer for storage in the Content Data Store. Install Content Deployer (HTTP or HTTPS) if you intend to publish content over an HTTP or HTTPS transport protocol, or Content Deployer (other protocols) otherwise.
Experience Manager

Install this Server Role to enable users to work with content directly on the staging Web site. This Server Role consists of multiple software components:

  • Experience Manager Web service - a Web service used for enabling in-context editing
  • Experience Manager Web site extension - software to add to the staging Web site

Note that this product feature also involves installation of software on the Content Manager side. Note that when you set up this product feature in combination with a classic ASP Web site, the following features will not work:

  • Session Preview
  • Footprint Sets
API
Install this Server Role (typically on an SDL Tridion-enabled Web site) if you want to code against the Content Delivery APIs, for example to dynamically query the Content Data Store or to use Dynamic Linking, Profiling & Personalization or the Ambient Data Framework.

The following Content Delivery Server Roles can be installed separately at a later time:

Cache Channel Service
Install this Server Role if you have a scaled-out scenario and you need to synchronize caches on several machines.
Monitoring
Install and configure this Server Role to monitor whether Server Roles are up and running.
User Generated Content

Install this Server Role to allow visitors to your Web site to rate your content and leave comments. This Server Role consists of multiple software components:

  • User Generated Content database - a SQL Server or Oracle database for storing ratings and comments
  • Community Web service - a Web service used for submitting ratings and comments
  • Moderation Web service - a Web service used for moderating ratings and comments
  • User Generated Content Web site extension - software to add to the live Web site
  • User Generated Content Content Deployer extensions - software to add to the Content Deployer Server Role

Note that this product feature also involves installation of software on the Content Manager side. Note also that this product feature does not work in combination with a classic ASP Web site.

Content Delivery Web service
Install this Server Role to enable external parties to interact with your Content Data Store from other Web sites.