Configuring site cache servers

When you configure a site cache server, you specify:

• Which Meridian Enterprise Server repositories to cache on the site cache server
• The specific documents to preload into the cache so that they are available to local users
• When to preload a cache so that new documents are available to local users
• How much disk space on the site cache server to use for the cached documents
• How long to retain the documents and when to remove the oldest documents

To configure a site cache server:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click Settings. The Application Settings page appears.
2. In the menu, click SITE CACHE. The Site Cache page appears and shows the currently registered servers.
3. Select the server in the list that you want to configure and in the toolbar, click Configure. The configuration page of the site cache server opens in a new browser window.
4. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
5. Click Apply. Your changes are saved.

Site cache server options

Option	Description
General settings group
Cache folder	The root path on the site cache server where to store the cached files. Sub-folders will be created here automatically for each repository. To validate the path, click Test.
Description	Type a description of this site cache server to appear on the Site Cache page for easier identification.
Repositories group
Display name	Lists all the Meridian Explorer repositories and Meridian Enterprise vaults that are registered on the Meridian Enterprise Server to which the site cache server is connected.
DMS Type	The repository type, either ExplorerClient or WebAccess (Meridian Enterprise Web Client).
Available	The current availability of the repository.
Cache enabled	Indicates whether the repository is cached by the current site cache server. Note    This option requires a Site Cache Server license (part number contains M--SCH) if the component is not installed on the same computer as Meridian Enterprise Server.
Cleanup settings group
Cache info	The amount of disk space currently used by the cache relative to the maximum cache size.
Max cache size	The maximum amount of disk space (in MB) to use for cached documents. The default is 50% of the available free disk space. The current size of the cache is shown as a bar graph and as a percentage. To delete the currently cached files, click Clear cache.
Files will expire if not used for	The maximum number of days to keep documents in the cache before they are deleted to make space available for newer documents. Click Schedule to specify when and how often the cache cleanup should occur. This dialog box requires similar input to the Windows Task Scheduler. The required fields are indicated by the asterisk (*) character.
Monitor group
User	The names of the users that are currently connected to the site cache. The computer from which they most recently connected is shown in the Machine column.
Information events group
Log of background activities for troubleshooting
Error events group
Log of errors for troubleshooting

To configure caching for a specific repository:

1. In the row of the repository that you want to configure, click the Edit icon . The Edit repository settings dialog box appears.

2. To pre-load specific documents into the cache before users request them, select an existing collection from Collection for preload. All Meridian Explorer repositories provide a collection named All Documents that is selected by default when caching is enabled. Meridian Enterprise vaults do not provide a default collection so you must create one as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User's Guide.

   Note    If this option is empty, no documents from the repository will be preloaded into the cache. They will still be available to users but they will be downloaded from the repository first, which will take longer than if they were preloaded in the site cache. On subsequent requests, they will be downloaded from the site cache, which is faster.

3. To enable caching of the repository, check the box next to Cache enabled.
4. Click Save.

To unregister a repository:

• In the row of the repository that you want to unregister, click the Actions icon and then click Unregister.

  Note    You may only unregister a repository that is unavailable. You may also unregister a repository as described in Unregistering repositories.