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Setting up Server Details
A Server in this context refers to a Presentation Server.
From the Presentation Server Administration, if you expand the Servers node in the Explorer window you will see all server machines in the Presentation Server cluster. The administrator can view, edit or delete server details and add new servers.
All servers without a parent server are called master servers: they obtain data directly from the back end and communicate amongst themselves as peers. If a server has a parent server, it is called a slave server, and will obtain all its data from its parent server.
A master can have zero or more slaves attached to it. If one master server fails, its slave server children will automatically sequence through the list of master servers until they find a working master server that they will connect to. If you have two servers, they should both be masters.
The Name, PORT and CONTEXT properties are used the following way when constructing the URL to the Presentation Server servlet:
http://mymachine:8000/altiodevelop/com.altio.server.altioSyncEngine
In this example, mymachine is the value of the Name property, 8000 is the value of the PORT and /altiodevelop is the value of CONTEXT.
The information in the servers section, as it applies to the local server, is used to create the implicit properties as used in the properties section of the Presentation Server Administration tool. SeeSetting up the Presentation Server Parameters for further details.
Protocol: Choose whether to use a secure protocol HTTPS or not HTTP when communicating between two Altio tools. This is useful if you are using a cluster of Presentation Servers connected across the Internet by a Wide Area Network (WAN). If all your connections are local and do not use the Internet, you will not need to use this property. Connections between the Presentation Server and Client and between the Presentation Server and back-end application are specified in the explicit properties.
Server name: Enter the name of this machine, for example: localhost. This is used for identifying the Presentation Server in a clustered environment.
Context:
The HTTP path portion of the URL to the web application on this server,
for example: /altio. This is used by the application server to
determine the path used to invoke the web application. This value is also
used by the Presentation server parameters.
Please note: the forward slash at the beginning is required.
Port: Enter the port on which the Presentation Server is deployed on this machine. For example: 80.
Parent: If this machine is hosting a slave Presentation Server, enter in this field the name of the machine hosting the master Presentation Server.
Root directory: This field can be ignored if AltioLive has been deployed as a web application. Otherwise, set this value to point to the physical directory location of the application on this server. e.g. c:\altio.
Use the Edit menu option New Server to add a new Server to the list; with the default name of NewServer. A properties window opens, where you enter the details of the new Server.
Only active when a server is selected. This is similar to the New Server option, except that it will replicate the details of the selected server in the
This saves time when entering a server with similar details.
Deletes the selected Server from the list.