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Sascha Cutura

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The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - Inbox part 1

The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - Inbox part 1

INBOX

An integral part of the OpenText Process Suite platform is the inbox application that can be accessed by means of the My Inbox artifact included in the My Applications App palette. The inbox is the default mail box that is used to receive or forward any of the tasks and/or notifications originating from a business process model or case model (only tasks).

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The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - High Availability part 2

HIGH AVAILABILITY

The OpenText Process Suite platform web gateway

As described before, when installing and configuring the OTPS platform for high availability, you install the OTPS platform baseline to run in primary distributed mode. Each of the OTPS platform instances will be running its own web server and OTPS web gateway. Typically in these scenarios, you will use an IP (Internet Protocol) Load Balancer to distribute the workload across the multiple nodes of the cluster. Although both hardware and software based IP load balancers can be applied, it is recommended to use a hardware based for better performance and their built-in high availability features.

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The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - GUID & High Availability part 1

The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - GUID & High Availability #1

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier

In the OpenText Process Suite, this is a hexadecimal string consisting of 32 positions, e.g. 000c2990-6953-11e5-e141-1f639364d29b.

Every object or component, process and / or case instances is assigned a GUID to uniquely identify that object or instance of the object. With the process, this is called a Process Instance ID (PID).

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The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - File System part 2

The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - File System part 2

File System

OTPS platform instance at file system

When installing the OTPS platform baseline (step 2 in the previous blog), the appropriate folder structure is created at the file system of the server, starting from the level you specified as the folder where to install the OTPS baseline. Refer to the above mentioned folder locations with Windows and Linux.

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