Installing the Cache Channel Service server role as a Windows service

On a Windows machine, use the Content Delivery installer to install the Cache Channel Service, used to synchronize caches using Remote Method Invocation, as a Windows service. If you use RMI to synchronize caches, the Cache Channel Service must be running and listening on the configured host and port for remote synchronization to function.

About this task

Procedure

  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Access the SDL Tridion installation media.
  3. Navigate to the Content Delivery\installer folder and run the file startCDinstaller.bat.
  4. Follow the instructions on the screen and select to install the Cache Channel Service in a location you select.
    The Cache Channel Service is installed as a Windows service on the local host, listening on the default RMI port 1099.
  5. To set host and port for the Cache Channel Service, you must change the following Registry Key value:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SYSTEM->CurrentControlSet->Service->TCDCacheService

    Change the value of the ImagePath for the parameters to pass to the Cache Channel Service.