These fields control the properties of publishing servers that are defined in the system. By default, these fields are found in the following locations:
■ Content Management > Maintenance > Publishing servers, then click add (or click select next to an existing publishing server).
Tips
■ All references to "the publishing service" mean a specific instance of the AsiPublishing15 service. You can install multiple instances of this service to any web server on which Content Management (WCM) navigation items and content should be published, but each instance must have a unique single-letter identifier.
■ If you need to create multiple publishing servers, you must manually create a new publishing server for each IIS application and IIS web site. When you define a new publishing server, the Frequency and Publishing Speed values default to zero. You should set them to Frequency=10 and Publishing Speed=100.
Note: You must associate no more than one publishing server with each publishing service. If your environment has more than one IIS application or IIS web site that is hosting CM websites on a given server, you must install one publishing service for each such IIS application and IIS web site, and you must define a single corresponding publishing server for each publishing service. For more information, refer to Installing CM on web servers.
detail
(appears only in the main list of defined publishing servers)
Lists the currently pending and recently completed publishing requests for the associated publishing server. You can cancel pending requests or change their priority in the publishing queue. Changes to pending requests are processed when you click Save.
error log
(appears only in the main list of defined publishing servers)
Lists the errors reported by the publishing server. You can remove errors from the list by selecting the corresponding checkbox and clicking Delete Selected.
Description
Specifies the name of the publishing server that is displayed in the list of publishing servers in your CM environment.
Publish Server Code
Specifies the unique single-letter identifier of the AsiPublishing15 service that this publishing server controls. This must be a single uppercase letter from A-Z, which means that you can define at most 26 different iMIS publishing services in your CM environment (one publishing service per IIS application or IIS web site that hosts CM websites, with one corresponding publishing server per publishing service defined in CM to control each publishing service).
Local Publish Path
Specifies the root directory where the rendered .aspx files from published content records should be written on the server where the publishing service is running. This directory must be within the physical path of the IIS application or IIS web site that hosts CM websites.
By default, this path is C:\Program Files\ASI\iMIS\Net.
For 64-bit systems, the path must be changed to reflect the installation path default of C:\Program Files (x86)\ASI\iMIS\Net.
The uploaded files are written to system-created directories below the one that you specify here. Each directory corresponds to a content folder in the CM content folder hierarchy. Uploaded files are placed into the directory that corresponds to the parent content folder of the content record in which the ContentFile iPart is defined.
Local Protected Path
Specifies the root directory where the uploaded files defined in a ContentFile iPart (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.) should be written on the server where the publishing service is running. For security reasons, this directory must not be in the IIS Physical Path of any website, virtual directory, or application in IIS. In other words, the files in this directory must not be able to be linked to directly by web browsers. Instead, they are "served" to the client only after security permissions are verified.
By default, this path is C:\Program Files\ASI\iMIS\indexServiceProtected.
The uploaded files are written to system-created directories below the one that you specify here. Each directory corresponds to a content folder in the CM content folder hierarchy. Uploaded files are placed into the directory that corresponds to the parent content folder of the content record in which the ContentFile iPart is defined.
IP Address
Specifies the IP address of the computer that is running the AsiPublishing15 service for this publishing server. This is usually the IP address of the iMIS application server. You can run this service on a different computer than the iMIS application server, but there is no real benefit in doing so because the publishing service is not resource-intensive.
Alternate Server IP Address
Specifies an additional IP address of the computer that is running the AsiPublishing15 service for this publishing server, used for web servers that associate themselves with more than one IP address. You cannot specify a value for this field unless you have already specified the Server IP Address.
Frequency
Specifies the interval, in seconds, at which the publishing server should check for new PublishPending requests.
Publishing Speed
Specifies the maximum number of PublishPending requests that should be processed in each Frequency interval.
IIS Security
Specifies the authentication credentials for a Windows account that has permission to create, update, and delete content in the Local Publish Path that is specified in the Publishing Server Properties area.
These fields are required only when IIS security is used to protect IIS web site content.
■ IIS Security User Name - Specifies a windows user name.
■ IIS Security Password - Specifies the password associated with the windows user name.
■ IIS Security Domain - Specifies the Windows domain name if the Windows account being used is a domain account instead of a local account.