Viewing and editing the connectivity settings

After the Meridian Enterprise Server configuration database connection has been created, it can be viewed or changed as described in the following task. For the highest performance in large scale environments, multiple Meridian Enterprise Server servers can be deployed and configured in a cluster with one server acting as the primary server.

To view or edit the connectivity settings:

  1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click Settings. The Application Settings page appears.
  2. In the menu, click SYSTEM SETTINGS. The System Settings page appears and shows the current server configuration.
  3. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
Server connectivity options
Option Description
CONFIGURATION DATABASE group

Connection string

To select a different configuration database or to create a new one:

  1. Click CHANGE. A confirmation dialog box appears.
  2. Click YES. The Configuration Database page appears.
  3. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the table in Creating the configuration database.
SERVER (PRIMARY) group

Server Name

To connect Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console to a different server:

  1. Click CHANGE. A confirmation dialog box appears.
  2. Click YES. The Server configuration page appears.
  3. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
Server configuration options
Option Description

Computer

Type the Meridian Enterprise Server server name in one of the following formats:

  • Simple name (MyServer)
  • Fully qualified domain name (MyServer.MyDomain)
  • IP address (127.0.0.1, localhost)

Port

Type the port number that Meridian Enterprise Server is configured for. The default is 8686.

UPN

Type the User Principle Name with which to connect to the server, for example, MyServer\Administrator or administrator@MyServer.

  1. In the app bar, click CONNECT. A confirmation dialog box appears.
  2. Click OK. Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console reloads connected to the specified server.
CLUSTER group

Server clusters

For information about Meridian Enterprise Server clusters, see Understanding Meridian Enterprise Server clustering.

To join another Meridian Enterprise Server server with the current server in a cluster:

  1. Click ADD NODE. The REGISTER NODE dialog box appears.
  2. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the preceding table.
  3. Click REGISTER. The name of the server is added to the node list. The new node can now be selected for publishing jobs as described in Configuring a publishing job.
MERIDIAN360 group

Meridian 360 tenancy

The name of the Meridian 360 tenancy to which to connect for the exchange of packages.

To connect to a different tenancy:

  1. Click CHANGE. The Meridian 360 page appears.
  2. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
Meridian 360 tenancy options
Option Description

Package scanning interval

The interval in minutes to scan for new packages. The default is 5 minutes.

Sub-domain

The name of your tenancy (company) at meridian360.com.

User name

The account name with access to the Meridian 360 API with which to connect to Meridian 360.

Note    

This is the special Meridian user account that can only be used by Meridian Enterprise Server to communicate with Meridian 360.

The ways in which the Meridian user account is different from normal user accounts are:

  • The account and its password can only be created by BlueCielo ECM Solutions and once created, the account cannot be deleted.
  • It is the only account that can be assigned the Meridian security role in Meridian 360 that is necessary to communicate with Meridian Enterprise. The role does not grant privileges to the account to work interactively in Meridian 360. Once assigned, the role cannot be revoked.

For more information about the account and Meridian 360 security, see the Meridian 360 Help Center.

Password

Password for the account specified in User name.

Proxy address

URL (including optional port number) of the proxy server to use to connect to Meridian 360.

Proxy user name

User account with permission to connect to the proxy server.

Proxy user password

Password for the account specified in Proxy user name.

Packages

The number of packages sent from Meridian 360 that have not yet been imported to the Meridian Enterprise vault by Meridian Enterprise Server. To refresh the package count, click UPDATE. To view the available packages, click VIEW.