Using a single Content server for DMS and also for Archive link documents

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have Planned for a single content server for managing the documents in DMS, parallelly as DMS Standard SAP objects are not available for all SAP transactions, i have proposed for making use of SAP Archivelink funtionality to maintain the documentations where Std SAP DMS does not provide a Solution.

so here the question is

can a single content server be used as a content repository for Both DMS and archivelink,

can any one having done this pls state if it is possible to create different or Many Content repositories for DMS, Archive link in the same server,

is this a virtual creation or can we assign each repository a specific storage space which it should not exceed.

Thanks and regards

Sathish

[Former Member]

Hi sathish,

-- Through the ArchiveLink docuemnt Management interface, an SAP sytem can use various content servers as storage media. similarly, one contnent server can be used by multiple SAP systems.

-- A Content server always has a single database assigned to it. A database can therefore be used by only one content server.

-- A databse is split into as many repositories as necessary. The design of the repository is mapped in the SAP system.A repository contains documents.

Depending on your requirements,(if u have limited documents or with low requirements) you can use the same content server for both DMS and Archivelink.

The number of documents stored on the content server is limited only by the size of the database.

Its better to have an external content server for archiving purpose, if your database size is increasing. Since the archiving systems storage is not dependent on the database.

U can also refer to the below thread :

hope this helps....

regards

kavitha

[Former Member]

Yes, you can create more than one repository on a single content server. Its common place to create separate logical repositories for different data sets in ArchiveLink as well. I.e. one for HR archivelink, one for FI archivelink etc.