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Configuring Syndication

Before we dive into the details of setting up a syndicator – subscriber relationship, it will be helpful to understand the few configurations setting available to control the syndication process.

These configuration options are specified in the Syndication section of the WCMConfigService.properties file which is located in the <was_profile_root>/PortalServer/wcm/shared/app/config/wcmservices/ directory.
Note:

• You will need to restart WebSphere Portal to enable any configuration changes made to this file.
• When making changes to clustered servers, you will need to edit the WCMConfigService.properties file in each node of the cluster.

 

Syndication Interval

• Property name = deployment.itemChangedTaskDelay
• Default value = 30 (seconds)
• Possible values = 0 (seconds) to 65536 (seconds)

Description = Use this property to change the syndication interval to better suit the needs of your environment. For example, you might shorten the interval in an active authoring environment where users must collaborate heavily and rely on timely replication. Similarly you might lengthen the interval to avoid excessive replication of data that does not change often.

A value of 0 will prevent syndication from occurring. If you set the value to so short an interval that syndication cannot complete before the interval expires, syndication begins again when the previous syndication completes.

 

Disabling Automatic Syndication

• Property name = connect.moduleconfig.syndication.inittasks
• Default value = true
• Possible values = true or false

Description = Syndication process is configured to run automatically by default. You can disable automatic syndication and rely only on manual syndication to have complete control over when syndication occurs. To disable automatic syndication, change the value of this property to false.

 

Subscriber-only Server

• Property name = deployment.subscriberOnly
• Default value = false
• Possible values = true or false

Description = A syndicator server uses several processes to gather and queue content for syndication. These processes can sometimes impact server performance when run. However, a subscriber-only server does not require these processes, so you can improve performance on the subscriber-only server by disabling the processes. To configure a subscriber only server, change the value of this property to true.

 

Subscriber Reporting

• Property name = deployment.enableReport
• Default value = false
• Possible values = true or false

Description = This enables high level reporting of syndication to the SystemOut.log file on the Subscriber server. It provides a summary of items that were processed, and which items failed syndication to help you troubleshoot syndication issues. To enable subscriber reporting set this property value to true.