Installing SoftBench

Preparing for Your Installation
Choose Your Software Servers
Chapter 114
Choosing Your SoftBench CM Server
A SoftBench CM server system will contain the SoftBench CM archive
files. When choosing a server system, consider the following:
• Keep the number of SoftBench CM servers to a minimum. Each
server requires additional system administration in maintaining the
SoftBench CM archives. Generally, all archive files for a project
should be stored on the same server system. It is recommended that
each project's archive files be stored on no more than three server
systems; a single server is preferred.
• A fast system that is lightly loaded provides better performance than
a heavily loaded system. See “Check Your System Prerequisites” on
page 15 for more information.
• The server can be located anywhere on the network. However,
network performance usually dictates that archive files be stored
close to where they are most often accessed.
Make a list of the systems you have chosen to be SoftBench CM servers.
You may later customize SoftBench CM servers to limit network access
by clients. This is described in “Controlling Access and Security in
SoftBench” on page 56.