Documentum Product Notes

The interaction of Content Server with a repository deserves some attention. One Content Server serves one repository but multiple Content Server instances can also serve the same repository. This is usually done for performance reasons (load balancing) where the expected number of concurrent requests to one instance may cause it to become overloaded.

Multiple Content Server instances may also be used for high availability (failover) where failure of one Content Server instance doesn't make the repository unavailable since the other instance(s) can serve the repository.

The Content Server is supported by Method Servers, which can execute methods. In this context, a method is a piece of code that can be scheduled to run as a job or can be invoked from a workflow activity or a lifecycle action. Let's see the following Method Servers:

• Dmbasic Method Server: This executes methods written in Docbasic. Docbasic is a programming language, somewhat similar to Visual Basic...