Alfresco for Administrators电子书

Alfresco for Administrators

Table of Contents

Alfresco for Administrators

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Why subscribe?

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Understanding Alfresco

Overview of Alfresco

Enterprise and open source

Scalable

Rich media support

Secured system

Highly extensible

External integration

Collaboration

Business process management

Cloud-based ECM

Search

Version control

Auditing

Alfresco architecture overview

Alfresco Share

Alfresco repository

Filesystem protocol (CIFS/WebDAV/FTP)

Database

Content store

Solr indexes

Business use cases of Alfresco

Alfresco as a document management solution

Alfresco as a record management solution

Alfresco for collaboration

Summary

2. Setting Up the Alfresco Environment

Installing Alfresco using a wizard

Installing Alfresco manually on a Tomcat server

Installing Alfresco in JBoss

Installating amp

Troubleshooting tips and best practices

Summary

3. Alfresco Configuration

The basics of Alfresco configuration

Extending configuration files

Configuring subsystems in Alfresco

Extending the subsystem

Repository configuration

Configuring the database

Configuring the content store

Configuring the search functionality

Configuring Google Docs

Auditing

Configuring file servers

Configuring CIFS

Configuring FTP

Configuring the cloud sync service

Configuring e-mail

Outbound e-mail configuration

Inbound e-mail configuration

IMAP configuration

Summary

4. Administration of Alfresco

Understanding the admin console

Alfresco standalone administration page

System summary

Consoles

Model and messages console

Tenant console

Workflow console

E-mail services

General

License

Repository information

System settings

Repository services

Support tools

Directories

Virtual filesystems

Admin console in Alfresco Share

Application

Category Manager

Node Browser

Tag manager

Site Manager

Users

Steps to create a new user in Alfresco

Steps to edit and delete a user

Create multiple users using CSV File

Group

Admin console in Alfresco Explorer

Activiti workflow console

Summary

5. Search

Understanding Solr and Alfresco integration

Installing Solr

Understanding the Solr directory structure

Administration and monitoring of Solr

Understanding the Alfresco search admin console

Understanding the Solr admin console

Full re-indexing process in Solr

Troubleshooting Solr

Summary

6. Permissions and Security

Overview of permissions and roles

Permissions

Roles

Authorizing users the use of content or space

Overview of the security model

Authentication subsystem

Authentication chain

LDAP configuration with Active Directory

Summary

7. High Availability in Alfresco

Clustering Alfresco servers

Replicating a complete stack

Multi-tier architecture

Clustering Alfresco nodes

Step 1 – Share clustering

Step 2 – repository clustering

Steps for verifying clustering

Troubleshooting clustering

Setting up the Hazelcast mancenter dashboard

The backup and restore process

Performing a cold backup

Performing a hot backup

The restore process

Designing a disaster recovery system for Alfresco

Summary

8. The Basics of the Alfresco Content Store

Understanding the content store architecture

Encrypted ContentStore

Enabling the encrypted ContentStore

Caching ContentStore

Configuring the caching of ContentStore

Alfresco S3 content store

Configuring the Alfresco S3 connector

Content store selector

Using the content store selector

Understanding the database schema

Schema of the alf_node table

Schema of the alf_node_properties table

Schema of the alf_child_assoc table

Schema of the alf_content_data table

Schema of the alf_content_url table

Understanding the content lifecycle in Alfresco

Creating content

Editing content

Archiving content

Deleting content

Summary

9. Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Understanding JMX in Alfresco

Enabling JMX and connecting to Alfresco through the JMX client

Server administration and monitoring via JMX

Understanding MBeans and configuration

Server maintenance and best practices

Understanding JVM settings

Maintenance of disk space

DB monitoring and tuning

Schedulers

Fetching audit records from Alfresco

Tips for troubleshooting the application

Summary

10. Upgrade

Understanding the Alfresco upgrade process

Choosing the upgrade path

Standard upgrade guidelines

Preparing a checklist

Setup and validation of the new environment

Data upgrade process

Solr upgrade process for Alfresco 5

Best practices and troubleshooting

Summary

Index