Configure syndication
Define the following syndication options in WCMConfigService.properties.
The WCMConfigService.properties file is located in...
Windows: PROFILE_HOME/PortalServer/wcm/shared/app/config/wcmservices/
UNIX: PROFILE_HOME/PortalServer/wcm/shared/app/config/wcmservices/
i5/OS: PROFILE_HOME/PortalServer/wcm/shared/app/config/wcmservices/
- Restart WebSphere Portal to enable any configuration changes made to this file.
- When making changes to clustered servers, edit WCMConfigService.properties in each node of the cluster.
Details of syndication parameters are listed in the Syndication section of WCMConfigService.properties.
Change the syndication interval
Although the frequency of syndication is set by default during installation, you can change the syndication interval to better suit the needs of your environment.
For example, you might shorten the interval in an active authoring environment where users must collaborate heavily and rely on timely replication. Similarly you might lengthen the interval to avoid excessive replication of data that does not change often.
The syndication interval applies to all syndication operations and cannot be specified separately for different syndicator-subscriber pairs.
To change the syndication interval, edit the deployment.itemChangedTaskDelay property. By default, the syndication interval is set to 30 seconds. Specify the number of seconds to use as the syndication interval, with a minimum of 0 seconds and a maximum of 65536 seconds. A value of 0 will prevent syndication from occurring.
If you set the value to so short an interval that syndication cannot complete before the interval expires, syndication begins again when the previous syndication completes.
Disable automatic syndication
In some cases you might choose to rely only on manual syndication to have complete control over when syndication occurs. To do this, disable automatic syndication. When automatic syndication is disabled, the syndication interval setting is ignored. You only change this setting on the syndicator server.
To disable automatic syndication, change the value of the connect.moduleconfig.syndication.inittasks property to false.
Configure a subscriber-only server
A syndicator server uses several processes to gather and queue content for syndication. These processes can sometimes impact server performance when run. However, a subscriber-only server does not require these processes, so you can improve performance on the subscriber-only server by disabling the processes.
To do this, ensure that deployment.subscriberOnly property is set to true.
Parent topic:
Syndication tuning