A comprehensive guide to the administrative features and functions for the IXIA CCMS, specific to on-premise deployments.
The maintenance tasks required to keep the components running smoothly may fall under the responsibility of one or more individuals in your enterprise.
When you experience a data loss or significant error that forces you into data recovery, use your latest backup and perform a restore.
Follow these procedure in cases where you need to uninstall a component.
This section contains general information about the IXIA CCMS configuration.
Although you can perform some basic administration functions in IXIA CCMS Web using the Administration page, you must configure some features of CCMS Web elsewhere.
You can customize Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) functionality within IXIA CCMS.
This section contains information and instructions for the configuration of roles, groups, users, and access rights.
This section describes how to configure the IXIA CCMS for the IXIA Dynamic Release Management module.
The Administration role within IXIA CCMS Web enables a user with administrator privileges to access additional functions, including user management, the ability to refresh the server for users, provide templates, adjust Collaborative Review settings, and more.
You can configure the IXIA CCMS Output Generator to generate HTML output for a map and send it automatically to an existing project in Madcap Central.
To secure connections to the IXIA TEXTML Server, you can enable:
The Content Repository contains your DITA content, images, resources, snapshots, taxonomies, DTDs, and system configuration.
If Single Sign-On (SSO) is implemented in an on-premise deployment of IXIA CCMS, logging into the company's identity provider also automatically signs users in to CCMS Web.
Importing large, non-DITA files, such as videos, can impact memory requirements and performance of the IXIA CCMS.
When you upgrade or make changes to IXIA CCMS, ensure you test them on a non-production environment.
How you test a modification depends on the component and type of modification you made.
Generating and managing backups of your data is a fundamental task for those responsible for maintaining servers and component content management systems.
If you can stop IXIA TEXTML Server, you can replace the Content Store files with copies from your backup without needing to uninstall the existing Content Store.
The procedure for installing a Content Store from a backup depends on how you want it installed and the total number hosted on IXIA TEXTML Server.
The procedure for restoring IXIA CCMS Output Generator depends on if you need to reinstall the entire component or just replace files in an existing service.
The procedure to restore IXIA CCMS Scheduler depends on if you need to reinstall the entire component or just replace files in an existing service.
You can reinstall IXIA CCMS Web.
You must restart IXIA TEXTML Server components in sequence, subject to their dependencies on other components.
In Windows, you use the Control Panel to uninstall the IXIA TEXTML Server service after noting what user it runs under.
You can delete an instance of IXIA TEXTML Server running on Linux, if it is no longer required.
You can uninstall IXIA CCMS Web using the command prompt.
You can uninstall IXIA CCMS Output Generator.
You can uninstall IXIA CCMS Scheduler.
You can uninstall a local instance of IXIA CCMS Desktop from a user's machine by deleting all the files for it.
When you upgrade or make changes to IXIA CCMS, test them in a non-production environment.
This section provides troubleshooting information.
IXIA CCMS Customer Support staff are available to answer your questions. We welcome your comments.
