Performance Tuning for Content Manager

436 Performance Tuning for Content Manager

Introduction

The performance tuning guidelines covered here include setting up and

configuring the following Document Manager components and services:

 Desktop templates

 Views

 Standard search templates

 Item type configuration

 Class configuration

 Power searches

 Service manager

 Action and dialogs

We also provide general system consideration.

Desktop templates

The Desktop template configuration contains a configuration setting that can

contribute to a significant increase or decrease in performance and

responsiveness by the Document Manager Desktop. This setting is located in the

Data Lists tab of the Desktop Template configuration. The Data List Retrieval

Mode identifies how the Document Manager Desktop updates three objects:

Folders, Groups, and Users. In the Desktop template configuration, these objects

can be set for retrieval from cache or directly from the library.

When the Data List Retrieval Mode is set to access from cache data, the

Document Manager Desktop always pulls folder, user, or group information from

cache. When the Data List Retrieval Mode is set to access from library data, the

Document Manager Desktop performs a live lookup to the Library Server to pull

folder, user, or group information.

Identify user information needs to determine how these settings should be

applied in your environment. These settings can also be different between users

and groups. Users and groups that regularly add and change their folders might

require the folder data access setting to come from the library. In turn, this setting

might mean that it takes a few seconds extra to log into the desktop or refresh a

desktop view. Other groups and users whose folder structures are static might

want to keep the folder access settings to cache data. This enables faster

response time for desktop actions such as log in and desktop refresh.

Note: The content provided here is extracted from a white paper written by the

Document Manager and Content Manager development team. We include it in

this book for your convenience.