Application Server administrator installation tasks
The Application Server administrator prepares the application servers for FileNet® P8 , including planning deployment, creating administrative accounts, and configuring JDBC drivers for Content Platform Engine.
Content Platform Engine is a Java™ EE server-based application. You must install it in a homogeneous Java EE environment in which all of your application servers and their version numbers are identical.
If a user application is required for your system and you have not built or customized one using the FileNet P8 API toolkits, you can install IBM® Content Navigator.
If the application server where you are deploying Content Platform Engine is running on most 64-bit JVMs, it is a best practice to create no more than 150 object stores. However, if sufficient system and database resources are available, IBM WebSphere® Application Server 7.0 or higher with the 64-bit IBM JVM and WebSphere Compressed Reference Technology supports up to 500 object stores.
Content Platform Engine is a resource-intensive enterprise application, and while running Content Platform Engine and other Java EE applications on the same machine is possible, it not a best practice. Other Java EE applications will compete with Content Platform Engine for the same CPU, memory, and disk I/O resources, and increase the complexity of the installation and the risk of the deployment, because configurations will not match what has been qualified by FileNet P8 Engineering.
Although you might need to host Content Platform Engine and other applications on the same machine, it is preferable to host Content Platform Engine on its own machine or logical partition. If an architecture requires Content Platform Engine and a non-P8 Java EE application to be on the same machine, be sure to thoroughly test the configuration in your integration environment before deploying them into production.
It is not supported to deploy another application into the same application server instances with the FileNetEngine application. While it is possible, such a deployment introduces additional risk through potential conflicts with additional libraries in the classpath and contention for JVM resources such as thread pools and heap space.
If you are installing in a non-English environment, review the considerations and procedures in Preparing non-English environments for installing FileNet P8 before you begin your preparation tasks.
- Click the AutoFilter drop-down arrow in the Role column header and select ASA.
- Further filter the result set by clicking the AutoFilter drop-down arrow in any of the other columns and selecting a value or clear a filter by selecting (All).
The Content Platform Engine does not recognize special graphic symbols like currency symbols in application server passwords.
If you use such characters for passwords, interactions between the Content Platform Engine and your application server fail. To avoid this issue, consult the documentation for your service and create passwords that do not include such characters.