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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

4.6 How do you Perform System Administration?


Documentum content management system, like any other existing CMS in the market, requires system administration and monitoring to ensure the smooth running of the system.

4.6.1 Documentum Administrator

While Web Publisher serves as a simple-to-use content authoring tool in the WCM architecture, Documentum Administrator, which is another web-based tool, is primarily used for Documentum system administration. Similar to Web Publisher, Documentum Administrator can be accessed via the supported web browsers. Like Web Publisher, Documentum Administrator requires an application server host where it can be installed.

Once installed, Documentum Administrator serves as an excellent tool to perform and manage a wide range of operations on Documentum Docbases, for example:

  • Configure and maintain Documentum servers and Docbases

  • Create and maintain Documentum users, groups, and roles

  • Create and maintain object types and their attributes

  • Create and maintain Documentum...