Chapter 17 Understanding Cache OM and Multi-Engine Features : Cache OM Configuration Task Summary

Cache OM Configuration Task Summary
This section explains the overall procedure of configuring Cache object management, with references to other sections with more details. The ordering of tasks shown below is a suggestion only and is not a requirement.
Before You Begin
Work out a detailed plan for your project architecture. It’s good to begin with a simplified form of your final plan, for example one that does not use multiple instances of inference agents, and test before adding complexity.
For AIX only  You must add the following property to all engine property files (be-engine.tra) files:
 
Task A Configure the Cache Cluster Discovery Settings
If all defaults are appropriate for your environment, you need only specify the cluster name. Default multicast property values handle cluster member discovery. However, other options are available for use in different circumstances.
You add the same set of cache cluster discovery settings to property files of all nodes in the cache cluster.
See Chapter 19, Configuring Cache Cluster Discovery.
Task B Configure the Cache Cluster Settings
In this step you configure certain cluster characteristics such as what caching scheme to use, whether a backing store is used, and the number of cache servers that must be running before the rest of startup actions occur, and cache logging properties. If Decision Manager is used, you also define some properties used for deploying virtual rule function implementations to BusinessEvents
With a few exceptions, you add the same set of cluster-wide properties with the same values to property files of all nodes in the cache cluster.
See Chapter 20, Configuring Cache Cluster Settings
Task C Configure Agents and Cache Servers
Also see Chapter 17, Understanding Cache OM and Multi-Engine Features and Chapter 18, Understanding and Working With Cache Modes, especially Design Constraints With Cache Only Cache Mode.
After You Finish
After you finish configuring and testing your caching solution, you may want to add a backing store for data persistence. See Chapter 24, Setting up a Backing Store Database.