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Managing Connections
To successfully have all aspects of your business flow communicate with Oracle IPM, you must define the appropriate connection types. Using the Oracle IPM user
interface, you can create a connection to both an Oracle Content Server repository or a workflow server.
This section describes the connection configuration options available to an Oracle IPM administrator and how they are accessed. It contains the following topics:
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Section 7.1, Creating an Oracle Content Server Connection
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Section 7.2, Creating a Workflow Connection
7.1 Creating an Oracle Content Server Connection
To connect Oracle IPM to an Oracle Content Server document repository, do the following:
1. From the navigator pane, under Manage Connections, click the Create new
connection
icon and select the Create Content Server Connection. The Content
Server Connection Basic Information Page is displayed.
2.
Enter a name for the connection. The name will display in the Manage Connections panel. This field is required.
3. Enter a brief description of the connection and click Next. The
Content Server Connection Content Server Settings Page
is displayed.
4.
Optionally, enable SSL to connect to the repository over SSL. Note that to connect over SSL, the Oracle Content Server must be configured for SSL connections. For
more information, see Configuring Oracle UCM to Use SSL.
5. Enable Use Local Content Server and set the port number in order to specify
localhost as the machine name and connect IPM to the Oracle Content Server sharing the computer. Local communication offers the fastest connection option. If
enabled, localhost is used exclusively unless a communication failure occurs. If there is a communication failure to localhost and a pool of Oracle Content Servers
is defined, messages are sent to the machines named in the Oracle Content Server pool until communication to localhost resumes.
Note: You must ensure that the IPM support component
IpmRepository is installed and enabled on the Oracle Content Server
you are connecting to. For information on enabling Oracle Content Server components, see Oracle Fusion Middleware System
Administrators Guide for Oracle Content Server.
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Alternately, disable Use Local Content Server and define a pool of Oracle Content Servers. Each connection in the connection pool must be unique. Messages are
then sent to multiple Oracle Content Servers. This option is for load balancing in a clustered environment.
6. Click Next. The
Content Server Connection Security Page is displayed.
7.
Add any additional users required. To add a user, do the following:
a.
Click Add. The Add Security Member Page
is displayed.
b. Select either Search Groups or Search Users, then click Search. A listing of
