Do you have experience using any external document storage with the Appian environment?

stephanek over 9 years ago

Document Externalization do you have experience using any external document storage with the Appian environment?
i've seen that setting the conf.suite.BASE_PATH we can decide to move the Document Directories to dedicated NFS server .
In my use case (due to the high volume of documents the different running applications will manage /save) to avoid running into Disc Space issue,
we would Map a Network Drive on the server and would set the BASE_PATH to that location.
would this have a bad impact on performances ? (considering the network latency introduced )
Any pitfalls I should look out for?

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0 Aleksi White
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

Make sure to follow the documentation on this one:
forum.appian.com/.../NFS_Mounting.html

Assuming no serious network latency, I wouldn't be worried about performance
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0 stephanek over 9 years ago

Thank you very Much Aleksi . In the Case i don't need to share files among different Appian servers. but i just need to set the Document Management to a specific Network Drive (NAS) . would it be enough just to change my BASE_PATH right ? in this case i should only copy the accdocs* folder with existing documents ?
Thank you
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0 Aleksi White
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

Since BASE_PATH points to the <APPIAN_HOME>/_admin folder, it would expect to see all the content from _admin there. So I'd recommend copying over the entirety of that folder as the documentation suggestions, with the exception of <APPIAN_HOME>/_admin/search-local, which should not be shared. Also make sure to use forward slashes for the filepath in BASE_PATH, regardless of it being unix or windows.
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