Connecting by using Content Engine Web Service Transport (CEWS)

You can use load balancers to manage requests to Content Platform Engine in a highly available configuration by connecting the client application to Content Platform Engine using the Web Services (CEWS, previously seen as WSI) transport.

About this task

Applications such as IBM® Content Collector use the Content Engine Web Service (CEWS) transport to connect to Content Platform Engine. CEWS can use load balancers to balance requests to Content Platform Engine servers in a highly available configuration. In this type of configuration clients access Content Platform Engine by using a virtual server name rather that a server name and port number.

Use the load balanced virtual name when configuring a connection to Content Platform Engine to ensure that applications will function in the event of a Content Platform Engine failure.

Use the following format for the Content Platform Engine URL:

http://virtualname/wsi/FNCEWS40MTOM/

Example:

http://testvirtual1/wsi/FNCEWS40MTOM/