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Dell DX6012S Setup And Configuration Manual

1. Introduction to DX Content Router ........................................................................................ 1

1.1. Overview of DX Content Router ................................................................................. 1

1.2. About this Document ................................................................................................. 1

1.2.1. Audience ....................................................................................................... 1

1.2.2. Scope ............................................................................................................ 1

2. Replication Topologies ......................................................................................................... 2

2.1. Disaster Recovery ..................................................................................................... 2

2.2. Mirrored Clusters ...................................................................................................... 2

2.3. Multi-Site Disaster Recovery ...................................................................................... 2

2.4. Content Distribution ................................................................................................... 3

3. DX Content Router Services ................................................................................................ 4

3.1. Basic Architecture ..................................................................................................... 4

3.1.1. Structure of a DX Content Router Node ........................................................... 5

3.1.2. Publisher Service ........................................................................................... 7

3.1.3. Replicator Service ........................................................................................ 10

4. Installation ......................................................................................................................... 11

4.1. Requirements .......................................................................................................... 11

4.1.1. Operating System ......................................................................................... 11

4.1.2. 3rd Party Package Pre-requisites .................................................................. 11

4.1.3. Network ....................................................................................................... 11

4.2. Installing and Configuring DX Content Router Services .............................................. 13

4.2.1. Installing Services ......................................................................................... 13

4.2.2. Configuring Services and Rules .................................................................... 13

4.3. Upgrading DX Content Router ................................................................................. 14

4.3.1. Upgrading from 1.x ....................................................................................... 14

4.3.2. Upgrading from 2.x ....................................................................................... 14

4.4. Removing DX Content Router .................................................................................. 14

5. Running and Managing DX Content Router ......................................................................... 15

5.1. Starting DX Content Router Services ....................................................................... 15

5.2. Publisher and Replicator Shutdown .......................................................................... 15

5.3. Customizing the Standard Rule Sets ........................................................................ 15

5.3.1. Publish all streams on a single channel ......................................................... 15

5.3.2. Publish all streams on two separate channels ................................................ 16

5.3.3. Publish streams with header 'someHeaderName' on one channel and all

others except text files to a second ........................................................................ 16

5.3.4. Complex Content Metadata Analysis ............................................................. 16

5.4. Using the Publisher Console .................................................................................... 18

5.4.1. Publisher Console layout: ............................................................................. 19

5.5. HTTP Status Reporting for Publisher and Replicator ................................................. 21

5.5.1. Publisher Response ...................................................................................... 21

5.5.2. Replicator Response .................................................................................... 22

5.5.3. Request for Source Cluster IP Addresses ...................................................... 23

6. Support for Content Restoration and Fail-Over .................................................................... 24

6.1. Administrative Disaster Recovery ............................................................................. 24

6.2. Content Mirroring .................................................................................................... 24

6.3. Application-Assisted Fail-Over .................................................................................. 24

A. Content Metadata .............................................................................................................. 25

A.1. System Metadata .................................................................................................... 25

A.2. Content File Server Metadata .................................................................................. 25

A.2.1. Custom Metadata ......................................................................................... 25

B. DX Content Router Configuration ....................................................................................... 26

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Version 2.2

December 2010

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