What’s in this guide

This guide describes the system requirements, licensing, installation, and administration of BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise. Usage of the Meridian clients is documented in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User’s Guide. Configuration of Meridian vaults is documented in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.

This guide includes the following information:

• An introduction to this guide, who it is meant for, and how to use it.
• Instructions on surveying your computing environment to confirm that it can adequately support BlueCielo Meridian.
• Explanations of the purposes of the various services and other components that make up a BlueCielo Meridian system.
• Step-by-step instructions for the BlueCielo Meridian installation process on server and client computers, installing different options, and installing software upgrades.
• How Meridian licensing works, how to install licenses, and how to best manage licenses.
• Everything you need to create and maintain BlueCielo Meridian vaults.
• Your guide to emergency preparedness.
• How to create BlueCielo Meridian users and groups for configuring document workflow definitions and project workflow definitions.
• How BlueCielo Meridian security roles work together with vaults.
• How to configure document content indexing so users can search for text contained within documents.
• Guidelines for getting the best performance out of your BlueCielo Meridian system.
• Details of how BlueCielo Meridian works with Microsoft SQL Server as its vault database engine.
• Details of how BlueCielo Meridian works with Oracle as its vault database engine.
• How the Meridian local workspace improves client-side performance and how to optimized it.
• Networking topics relevant to BlueCielo Meridian operation and performance.
• Useful tips that can improve BlueCielo Meridian performance.
• Setup overview and installation steps for BlueCielo Meridian Web Access server administration.
• Important supplemental information.