Configure CD servers in Sitecore v8.2


In this article I am trying to share my analysis and knowledge to set up CD server on Sitecore 8.2
Content Delivery servers avail content to our website visitors. It could be possible to configure more than one server for scalability and improve the performance.
I am writing few recommendation which are required to configure Content Delivery for your sitecore project.

x-DB Analytics :  This feature is used to track contacts, goal, site visitor behavior and perform personalization. To enable xDB and tracking got to deployment location
 Deployment\SharjeelsWork\8Dot2CM\Website\App_Config\Include and enable or make it true in following configuration file
Sitecore.Xdb.config





x-Analytics Assembly Files : In web application, we are using web API  attribute routing then disable below dlls placed in bin folder of deployment location to avoid errors.
Location: \Deployment\SharjeelsWork\8Dot2CM\Website\bin  
o    Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.dll
o    Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Client.dll
o    Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.ReAggregation.dll

Session State: To configure clusters of content delivery or processing server it is required to share contact session across all browsers to use session state. You can get more idea after going through below link on developer portal.
https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/82/sitecore-experience-platform/en/session-state.html

Live session agent module: This module enables you to install and configure an additional server role on Content Delivery instance. It provide you to trigger and process automation states by time out for contacts and live session on website. To download this module please go to below sitecore developer group and install on your CD instance.
https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Engagement_Automation_Live_Session_Agent/20/Sitecore_Engagement_Automation_Live_Session_Agent_20.aspx

Step 1: First install a Sitecore 8.2 instance with the help of my last Article.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sitecore82-installation-step-sharjeel-bilali/

Step 2: Once instance installation is done then configure Database connection strings placed in deployment location for me it’s \Deployment\SharjeelsWork\8Dot2CD\Website\App_Config

Connection string file name is ConnectionStrings.config




For CM and CD server, required to follow instruction from below table available on https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/82/sitecore-experience-platform/en/database-connection-strings-for-configuring-servers.html

Database
Connection String
CD server
CM server
Processing server
Reporting Service server
SQL Server
core
Enable
Enable
Enable
Enable
master
Disable
Enable
Enable
Enable
web
Enable
Enable
Disable
Enable
reporting
Disable
Enable
Enable
Enable
reporting.secondary (optional)
NA
NA
Enable
Enable
MongoDB
analytics
Enable
Enable
Enable
Enable
tracking.live
Enable
Enable
Enable
Enable
tracking.history
Disable
Disable
Enable
Enable
tracking.contact
Enable
Enable
Enable
Disable



I did changes in connection string for CD server based on above table.



Step 3: Now download the spreadsheet that lists of all the configuration files that you must enable or disable for CM/CD server type. This information is available on https://doc.sitecore.com/.
After verifying this xl sheet I enable/disable few config files and found CD server in ok state. I am sharing my changes sheet which requires some enable/disable config in default CD config files.


Note : I am assuming Lucene search is in use. If you want to use solr then disable Lucene config files and enable solr config files inside AppConfig folder.

File Path
Config file name
CD
\App_Config\Include
001.Sitecore.Speak.Important.config
Disabled
CacheContainers.config.example
Enabled
DataFolder.config.example
Enabled
ScalabilitySettings.config.example
Enabled
Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.Aggregation.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.Aggregation.Services.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Analytics.Processing.Services.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Analytics.Reporting.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Analytics.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Core.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Master.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Web.config
Enabled
Sitecore.EngagementAutomation.Processing.Aggregation.config
Disabled
Sitecore.EngagementAutomation.Processing.Aggregation.Services.config
Disabled
Sitecore.EngagementAutomation.Processing.config
Disabled
Sitecore.EngagementAutomation.TimeoutProcessing.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Marketing.Client.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Marketing.Definitions.MarketingAssets.Repositories.Lucene.Index.Master.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Marketing.Lucene.Index.Master.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Marketing.TaxonomyCD.config.disabled
Enabled
Sitecore.MarketingCD.config.disabled
Enabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.Client.config
Disabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.config
Disabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.Processing.config
Disabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.RemoteClient.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.Services.config
Disabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.Services.RemoteServer.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.PathAnalyzer.StorageProviders.config
Disabled
Sitecore.PipelineProfiling.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.Processing.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Shell.MarketingAutomation.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.AntiCsrf.SheerUI.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.Applications.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.Components.AntiCsrf.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.Components.Mvc.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.Components.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.ItemWebApi.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Speak.LaunchPad.config
Disabled
Sitecore.WebDAV.config
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include\ContentTesting
Sitecore.ContentTesting.ApplicationDependencies.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ContentTesting.Client.RulePerformance.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ContentTesting.Lucene.IndexConfiguration.config
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include\ExperienceAnalytics
Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Aggregation.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Client.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.Reduce.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.StorageProviders.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ExperienceAnalytics.WebAPI.config
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include\ExperienceProfile
Sitecore.ExperienceProfile.Client.config

Sitecore.ExperienceProfile.config

Sitecore.ExperienceProfile.Reporting.config

\website\App_Config\Include\FXM
Sitecore.FXM.Lucene.DomainsSearch.Index.Master.config
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include\ListManagement
Sitecore.ListManagement.Client.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.DisableListLocking.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Lucene.Index.List.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Lucene.IndexConfiguration.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Services.config
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Solr.Index.List.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Solr.IndexConfiguration.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Azure.Index.List.config.disabled
Disabled
Sitecore.ListManagement.Azure.IndexConfiguration.config.disabled
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include\Social
Sitecore.Social.ExperienceProfile.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Social.Lucene.Index.Master.config
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include\Z.SwitchMasterToWeb
SwitchMasterToWeb.config.example
Enabled
\website\App_Config\Include
Sitecore.Update.config
Disabled
\website\sitecore\shell\Applications\Reports\Dashboard
CampaignCategoryDefaultSettings.config
Disabled
Configuration.config
Disabled
DefaultSettings.config
Disabled
SingleCampaignDefaultSettings.config
Disabled
SingleTrafficTypeDefaultSettings.config
Disabled
\website\App_Config\Include
Sitecore.Commerce. ExperienceAnalytics.config
Disabled
Sitecore.Commerce.ExperienceProfile.ReportingServer.config
Disabled
\Website\App_Config\Include\ExperienceContentManagement.Administration                 (Update 7)
Sitecore.ExperienceContentManagement.Administration.config
Disabled


After doing all above steps I forget to enable Z.SwitchMasterToWeb.config file which is the key file to configure CM server J. I got below error for the same. To fix this I just enable Z.SwitchMasterToWeb.config file located at.




Location : Deployment\SharjeelsWork\8Dot2CD\Website\App_Config\Include\Z.SwitchMasterToWeb



After following above steps my CD server is ready. Please see the below screen for the same CD server.




This CD server is based for Lucene search. To make it for solr we need to make some changes in config file to disable Lucene and enable solr. Soon I will share my analysis for solr based CD server.


Happy Learning!!!






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