IXIA CCMS Output Generator overview

The IXIA CCMS Output Generator is a centralized server that ensures that users generate their outputs using the same style sheets. Its multithreaded architecture allows users to simultaneously generate multiple outputs.

IXIA CCMS Output Generator is a key component of IXIA CCMS and is the engine behind the publication of your content and transforms DITA content to a specified output type, such as PDF, HTML, XML, or CHM.

Note: You can define any process in the conductor file to shape the final transformation to a given rendered output. The process can be a DITA Open Toolkit script, provided in the CCMS installation, or a custom build script. You can also customize the rendering engine for PDF to Antenna House, RenderX, or Apache FOP.
  1. It retrieves from the Content Store the objects to be transformed.
  2. It saves the files to a working folder.
  3. It calls all the tasks defined in the conductor file to transform the DITA files.
  4. When the transformation is completed, it zips the generated output and either returns it to IXIA CCMS Desktop or saves it to the Application Server forIXIA CCMS Web Server.

IXIA CCMS Output Generator interacts with all other IXIA CCMS components.

Figure: Interaction with all other CCMS components
Overview of Components