CSE Installation and Configuration › Configuring the Environment

Configuring the Environment

When configuring your environment, you make the decisions about how to use the CA Gen software, determine how many server and client products to use, and determine the types of changes that are required for your system configuration.

You can create the CA Gen CSE environment as a basic configuration with one server, Message Dispatcher, and database, or you can design and implement an advanced configuration of servers, Message Dispatchers, and databases in a communication networks. After deciding on your configuration, complete pre-installation work and begin installation.

You can combine the configurations in the following configuration option list to meet your site's needs:

• As a Windows Service in a Windows network, you can enable using the CSESvcMD service where each Message Dispatcher is configured. The CSE Servers can run in the background, without displaying on the desktop, and automatically restart the databases and CSE Servers after a stystem restart.
• This diagram illustrates a basic configuration has one coordination database and server, one local encyclopedia database and server, and the Message Dispatcher, on the same system:

  

• This diagram illustrates a multiple encyclopedia configuration has one Message Dispatcher, one coordination database and server, and multiple encyclopedia databases and servers on one or more systems:

  

• For the UNIX platforms only, multiple software versions can access the same encyclopedia, when the database version remains unchanged. For example, a previous and a current version of the software can access the same current encyclopedia:

  

• A Multiple Message Dispatchers configuration requires at least two server systems, with a Message Dispatcher on each system. The coordination server and coordination database control logons to all encyclopedias. An encyclopedia database and encyclopedia server is installed with each Message Dispatcher: