IBM® Content
Navigator is
a web client that can connect to multiple IBM Content
Manager Enterprise Edition, IBM Content
Manager OnDemand, and IBM FileNet® P8 repositories.
Depending on how you configure
IBM Content
Navigator, you can use the web
client to:
- Access one or more repositories
- Access one or more types of content management servers
The following diagram shows how documents on the content server
are delivered to a web browser on a user's workstation through the
connectors that are installed on the IBM Content
Navigator web application server.
The following connectors are installed when you install
IBM Content
Navigator:
- Content Manager connector,
which is used to communicate with your IBM Content
Manager Enterprise Edition repositories
- Content Engine client connector
files, which are used to communicate with your IBM FileNet P8 repositories
- Process Engine client connector
files, which are used to communicate with your IBM FileNet Process Engine server if you use IBM FileNet P8 workflows
If you want to use IBM Content
Navigator with IBM Content
Manager OnDemand repositories, you must install
the Content Manager OnDemand connector, ODWEK.
If you want to use IBM Content
Navigator with OASIS Content Management Interoperability
Services repositories, you
do not need to install any connectors. You must configure the connections
to your OASIS Content Management Interoperability
Services repositories
from the IBM Content
Navigator administration
tool.
If you use plug-ins with
IBM Content
Navigator,
your system might communicate with other applications. For example:
- If you configure IBM Content
Navigator to
use the IBM Watson
Content Analytics plug-in, IBM Content
Navigator uses the plug-in to
communicate with IBM Watson
Content Analytics.
- If you configure IBM Content
Navigator to
use an external data services plug-in, IBM Content
Navigator uses the plug-in to
communicate with the external data source.
The underlying architecture of IBM Content
Navigator is explained in more
detail in IBM Content
Navigator development
architecture.