System Landscape Service 

Use

The system landscape service is used to identify remote systems and to store their parameters. The service is also used to determine the user credentials that are required to access this system.

 

Integration

You have to define the systems so that the system landscape service reflects your server environment. You enter information on the servers that CM accesses in the configuration under System Landscape Definitions (see System Landscape Definitions).

The logon information (user credentials) that is required by the individual remote servers is defined by default in the system. The system landscape service reads and manages this information.

The CM system landscape service operates independently of the portal system landscape service.

 

Features

You define the following parameters in the configuration of the system landscape service:

System Landscape Service Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
Cluster Installation	No	Activate this parameter if you are using CM in a load-balancing environment.
Cluster Caching Timeout	Yes	If you are operating CM in a load-balancing environment, the caches are only invalidated after a specified period of time, rather than immediately. The delayed invalidation of cache entries in a load-balancing environment can increase the performance when processing requests, because less data has to be requested from the database. The data is now read from the caches. However, inconsistencies in the data of the various nodes of a load-balancing cluster can occur in the set time span, for example, if a node changes data that is kept on another node in its old form. Presetting: 10 seconds.

 

Activities

In the KM standard configuration, the system landscape service is already activated.

If you are using CM in a load-balancing environment, the Cluster Installation parameter must be activated.

To call up the configuration for the system landscape service, choose Content Management ®Global Services ® System Landscape Service.

 

Do not deactivate the service since it is needed for accessing remote systems.