How to use Akamai with Teamsite

We have a requirement to use Akamai along with Teamsite enviornment. I am very much new to Akamai. What I came to know is webserver images kept on the live box are replaced with Akamai servers which intelligently works to given better performance.

Can anybody throw some light on how to / approach of using it in Teamsite enviornment. How opendeploy communicates with Akamai? I came to know via some of the post that we can use dnr to sent request to Akamai.

I need to know in detail as how this works. Request your help guys.

OS: Windows Server 2003
TS: 6.7.1
OD: 6.2

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kaalraa

From what I have the experience, we used to do the following:

TS Perspective:
1. Deploy the assets from TS to Web Server (Linked through Akamai Origin Server).
2. Run the DNR shell script after Deploy, which purges the content on Akamai servers.

Akamai:
This is something, Akamai folks will do as per your contract with them.

We have a requirement to use Akamai along with Teamsite enviornment. I am very much new to Akamai. What I came to know is webserver images kept on the live box are replaced with Akamai servers which intelligently works to given better performance.

Can anybody throw some light on how to / approach of using it in Teamsite enviornment. How opendeploy communicates with Akamai? I came to know via some of the post that we can use dnr to sent request to Akamai.

I need to know in detail as how this works. Request your help guys.

OS: Windows Server 2003
TS: 6.7.1
OD: 6.2

dkuntze

Use a URL task from within your workflow model -- assuming you'll be publishing your content with a workflow.

After the deploy task, fire off a CCUAPI call (webservice) to Akamai. The CCUAPI detail should be available from the Akamai web UI.

muksm

1. Deploy the assets from TS to Web Server (Linked through Akamai Origin Server).
>> What do you mean by linked through Akamai Server. How can we link? Do we need to also deploy content to Akamai origin server ?

2. Run the DNR shell script after Deploy, which purges the content on Akamai servers.
>> What are these shell scripts and what does that do. Can you please elaborate more on this. I've a windows enviornment.

kaalraa

1. Deploy the assets from TS to Web Server (Linked through Akamai Origin Server).
>> What do you mean by linked through Akamai Server. How can we link? Do we need to also deploy content to Akamai origin server ?

Your web server should be active Akamai origin server which needs to be configured by you or Akamai professionals.

2. Run the DNR shell script after Deploy, which purges the content on Akamai servers.
>> What are these shell scripts and what does that do. Can you please elaborate more on this. I've a windows enviornment.

These are customised shell scripts (batch files). Please ask Akamai professionals for commands to purge and use them.

muksm

So do I need to deploy my assets to my existing webserver or to akamai origin server. I am asking this because, as per my knowlege we have to deploy content to our existing webserver and also sent a request to Akamai to purge these updated file. Akamai will pick and update only those specific content.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

kaalraa

So do I need to deploy my assets to my existing webserver or to akamai origin server. I am asking this because, as per my knowlege we have to deploy content to our existing webserver and also sent a request to Akamai to purge these updated file. Akamai will pick and update only those specific content.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. However as per my understanding Web Server should be the Akamai Origin Server from where the Akamai edge server would pick the updated assets after purge.

muksm

According to what i understood till now is:

1. Images will be deployed to my webserver only.

2. My webserver already had OD Receiver.

3. Akamai Origin Server will also reside on my webserver.

4. Conclusion is webserver will have OD receiver and Akamai Origin Server installed both on single box.

kaalraa

Your comprehension skills are quite good. Smiley Happy

According to what i understood till now is:

1. Images will be deployed to my webserver only.

2. My webserver already had OD Receiver.

3. Akamai Origin Server will also reside on my webserver.

4. Conclusion is webserver will have OD receiver and Akamai Origin Server installed both on single box.

chicka

In our project we employ CCUAPI webservice call to purge akamai contens (JSPs, js, HTML, and all digital assets)

muksm

Thanks to each one of you to help me out. I am approaching Akamai folks to help me out with commands and scripts. If I need more info than i'll surely post again in this thread.

Thanks once again.

kaalraa

Hi Mukund,

It would be appreciated if you could share your learning to all others.

Thanks.

Thanks to each one of you to help me out. I am approaching Akamai folks to help me out with commands and scripts. If I need more info than i'll surely post again in this thread.

Thanks once again.

muksm

Yes sure... I'll definately share

ACheethayil

You can akamise your content in two ways.

1. Hosting Service
2. Caching service

Hosting Service
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If you are going to do a hosting service(via akamai), you need to send the digital assets to akamai net stroage. You can use Open Deploy FTP adpater service for this.

Caching Service
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Akamai will pull the digital assets from your origin server. This has to be configure on akamai end. In this case you don't have to deploy the content to akamai net storage. Akamai will pull the content from your origin server and cache at their end. You can define the TTL(time to live) and after TTL is reached, akamai will pull the new digital assets. This will avoid showing the old content. Say if u set TTL as 4 hours, every 4 hours akami checks your origin server and pull the changed content and cache it.