Software components installed by the Content Manager installer

Use the Content Manager installer to install both core software components (the default) and additional, nonessential features or legacy features.

Core software components

By default, the installer installs only the Tridion Sites Content Manager server-side application, which contains the following:
Software componentDescription
Core ServiceA service that you can use to interact with the Content Manager programmatically. The Core Service exists as a WCF Core Service and as a Core Service.REST.
Publisher ServiceA module that publishes all content from Tridion Sites Content Manager.
Batch Processor ServiceA scalable service for processing multiple items in batch.
Search Indexing ServiceA module that indexes content from Tridion Sites Content Manager.
Workflow Agent ServiceA module that executes scripts defined in Tridion Sites Content Manager workflow processes.
InterfacesVarious user interfaces to Tridion Sites Content Manager:
  • IISHost: a module that is required for the Core Service, a web service used for integration of your external application with the Content Manager core.
  • Visio Workflow Server: a server-side module that lets you define workflow processes using Tridion Sites Workflow Designer.
  • WebDAV Server: a module that lets you access Tridion Sites Content Manager from any WebDAV-compliant client application or operating system.
  • Template Builder: an interface for assembling Template Building Blocks together into a Compound Template. Template belongs to the Templating feature.
TemplatingA Modular Templating Framework that enables you to create C#, .NET assembly, and Dreamweaver Template Building Blocks (TBBs). A TBB performs a modular task.
Search Host ServiceA module supporting the outscaling of the Search Index Server so that you can set up a Search Host Primary Server for indexing (and optionally search) and any number of Tridion Sites Search Host Replica Servers, only for search.
User interfacesVarious interfaces to Tridion Sites Content Manager:
  • Experience Space: the new user interface for Tridion Sites, introduced in SDL Tridion Sites 9.5.
  • Content Manager UI core: core components for browser-based user interfaces.
  • Content Manager Explorer: the browser-based content management interface. You can choose to install or not install its Documentation separately.
  • Experience Manager: the browser-based content authoring interface, which breaks down into:
    • Experience Manager core: core components
    • Experience Manager GUI: user interface components
    • Device Preview: a feature to preview and edit content in Experience Manager as it is displayed in a handheld device such as a mobile, smartphone, or tablet
External Content LibraryA module for exposing multimedia contained in an external system in Tridion Sites so that you can use the media in Tridion Sites-driven websites.

As of Tridion Sites 9.1, installation of External Content Library (ECL) includes Tridion Integration Framework, a feature that simplifies the task of building connectors for integrating Tridion Sites with other enterprise applications.

Topology ManagerTopology Manager forms the bridge between the Content Manager and Content Delivery environments. By decoupling the two environments, it becomes easy to swap out environments on either side, and to separate concerns by specific roles in your organization.

Nonessential software components

In addition, you can select the following nonessential features, which you can install at the same time as the Content Manager or separately. Note that if the feature includes a separate database, it must be created first before running the installer.
Translation Manager
A module that allows you to send content stored in the Content Manager of Tridion Sites for translation to a translation management system. This features breaks down into the following components:
Software componentDescription
Translation Manager serviceSynchronizes the translation management and Content Manager systems. The Translation Manager service reads Translation Jobs from the Translation Manager database and performs the actions necessary to handle the jobs such as localizing and checking items out, creating jobs for transferral to translation management system, copying over and checking items in when translations have been completed, and updating the status of jobs.
Translation Manager extension of the Content Manager user interfacesEnables end users to initiate and track translations from the Content Manager user interfaces (both Classic and Experience Space.

Translation Manager also includes a separate database.

Experience Optimization

A feature that integrates Tridion Sites with Elasticsearch so that you can create and manage targeted content for Tridion Sites-driven websites.

Deprecated software components

Finally, the following are deprecated features, which you should only install if you are installing on a new machine, but upgrading from an earlier version that uses the deprecated feature you select. Deprecated features are only selectable in the installer if you run the installer from the command line with LEGACY_VISIBLE=TRUE. The following deprecated features exist:
SpellChecker

A feature to check the spelling of the textual content of your content items in several languages.

Outbound E-mail
A module for managing email campaigns (mailings and distribution lists). This module breaks down into the following components:
Software componentDescription
Modular Templating SupportPredefined Template Building Blocks that you can use to develop Compound Templates used when sending mailings.
Script ExtensionA feature to create Page Templates or Component Templates using VBScript or Jscript (supported for backwards compatibility)
Queue Triggered Mailings serviceA feature to handle triggered mailings.
Bounce Processor serviceA feature to keep track of bounced emails and to update the mailing statistics by periodically polling a preconfigured POP3 or IMAP mailbox account for bounced emails.
Collect Tracking Data serviceA feature to retrieve tracking information from the Tracking database on the presentation side.
Audience Manager
A module (deprecated as of SDL Tridion Sites 9.1) for gathering information about Contacts and audiences such as interests, preferences and characteristic. This feature breaks down into the following components:
Software componentDescription
Audience Manager Web serviceUsed for importing and exporting Contacts to and from an external system.
Mailer serviceA feature to send out the mailings to the SMTP Gateway server(s).
GUI ExtensionsAdds Audience Manager to Content Manager Explorer.
Synchronization serviceSynchronizes Contact information and Segments between the Audience Manager database and the Subscription database on the presentation side.
User Generated Content

A module (deprecated as of SDL Tridion Sites 9.1) that allows visitors to your website to rate your content and leave comments and then manage these ratings and comments.

Monitoring
A module (deprecated as of SDL Tridion Sites 9.1) that provides monitoring of Tridion Sites Services. This module includes two installable components:
  • Monitoring Server
  • Monitoring Agent Web service, an interface for Content Manager