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Creating a Content Distribution Profile

A content distribution profile for Legacy Content Delivery is where you define which servers are in the delivery group, which publications the 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 for Legacy Content Delivery allows you to determine which 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. In the Administration Tools pane, click Manage Application.
    The Manage Application page appears.
  2. In the left pane, click Distribution.
  3. Click Add Distribution Profile.
  4. 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 delivery servers, name the profile North_America.
  5. Select the configuration package that the delivery servers in this profile will receive.
    A configuration package includes the files and configuration items that you want to use on your delivery servers.
    A configuration package cannot includes publications. Any package that includes publications will not be available for selection during this step.
    Only configuration packages which have been previously exported will be available to select during this step. See Defining a Configuration Package.
  6. Do the following to add delivery servers:
    1. Ensure that the server you want to add is available. When you add a server to a delivery profile, the master server 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 output, 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 delivery group.
  7. 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 delivery server. The language version will be installed or updated on the delivery server.
    ExcludeDoes not include the language version in the content package. If the language version already exists on the delivery server, it is not updated, nor is it deleted. The default selection is Exclude.
    DeleteRemoves the language version from the delivery server.
    The Visible column indicates whether a language version is visible to users. A language version's visibility is carried over to the delivery server -- that is, if it is visible on the distribution server, it will be visible on the delivery servers.
  8. 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 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.
  9. Click Save.