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Alfresco for Administrators

By : Vandana Pal
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Alfresco for Administrators

By: Vandana Pal

Overview of this book

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for Windows and Linux-like operating systems. The year-on-year growth of business connections, contacts, and communications is expanding enterprise boundaries more than ever before. Alfresco enables organizations to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency, and ensure information governance. The basic purpose of Alfresco is to help users to capture and manage information in a better way. It helps you capture, organize, and share binary files. This book will cover the basic building blocks of an Alfresco system, how the components fit together, and the information required to build a system architecture. This book will also focus on security aspects of Alfresco. such as authentication, troubleshooting, managing permissions, and so on. It will also focus on managing content and storage, indexing and searches, setting up clustering for high availability, and so forth.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Clustering Alfresco servers


Clustering refers to collections of multiple nodes combined together in a server as a single application to end users. With clustering, you can achieve scalability, server redundancy, and performance improvement of the application.

Let's consider a global financial organization that has multiple teams working for it across the globe. Alfresco is used as an enterprise content repository to store all the financial assets, like contracts. Now, these assets are very time-critical, and therefore the contracts should be accessible to all teams working on it at any time. There are thousands of users using the application, which also requires high server performance. High throughput is required for the server for users accessing assets in the system.

To satisfy these requirements, you will need to build a robust and highly available system by creating a clustered environment of Alfresco so the load on the server can be distributed. You also need a redundant and scalable...