Outscaled SmartTarget environment
The following diagram shows a standard deployment model for deploying Fredhopper and SDL Tridion (SmartTarget) in an outscaled scenario, where Fredhopper is running on premise:
Intranet zone
The intranet zone is the zone where content is created, for example templates and schemas by developers and Web content—including content items and Promotions—by authors, editors and marketers. The intranet zone contains the following components installed behind your organizations's firewall:
- Content Manager
- The Content Manager contains all content. On the Content Manager side you will generally want to outscale the Publisher. The publisher renders and packages content and uses an internal Transport Service to deliver this content to the Content Distributor. Publishing in SDL Tridion is performed by the Publisher service requests of end users or automated processes. Publishing can consume significant server resources such as CPU or memory but has no dependency on IIS or any other Web server, which makes the Publisher a good candidate to run on a dedicated server.
- Content Deployer (Content Delivery)
- The Content Deployer sends preview content items to Fredhopper. The intranet zone requires a basic Content Delivery installation only and does not need to be scaled out.
- Fredhopper Preview server
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The Fredhopper Preview server is for developing and testing Promotions. On the Fredhopper Preview server you need to install the following components:
- Index Server—processes content and builds hierarchical data for previewing Promotions
- Query Server—evaluates Fredhopper queries on the Staging Web site (Experience Manager)
- Business Manager—environment for implementers to create triggers and configure the system. You then replicate the business configuration to the Fredhopper Intermediate Server.
- Staging Web site
- The Staging Web site is a preview version of your Web site for reviewing changes to your Web site including Promotions and content items. You can install Experience Manager here so that Marketers can edit Promotions and content items in the context of your Web site.
Demilitarized zone (DMZ)
The demilitarized zone is where you install your production environment. In the demilitarized zone you need to set up, and if necessary outscale, the following components:
- Content Deployer
- When you publish content to a live Web site, on the Presentation Server the Transport Package is processed by the Content Deployer and the items in the package are sent on to the Content Broker and to Fredhopper.
- Fredhopper Intermediate server
- The Intermediate server receives configuration updates from the Preview server and live content items created and published from the Content Manager.
- Fredhopper Live server
- The Fredhopper Live servers consist of two or more Query Servers each installed on separate machines.
- Application Servers
- You can outscale the Application Servers that process Web requests and Fredhopper queries to meet whatever requirements you may have.