8.5 Setting Up a Content Editor Appliance

If your TeamWorks deployment includes an integrated Content Editor appliance, complete all of the instructions in this section.

IMPORTANT:As stated in Content Editor Requires an SSL Connection with Each TeamWorks Appliance, the Content Editor appliance requires a secure connection with each TeamWorks appliance that accesses its services.

This means that the Content Editor and each TeamWorks appliance must have a certificate installed from an industry-recognized Certificate Authority.

Using the appliances’ self-signed certificates for this purpose is not supported.

Before you complete the instructions that follow, use the Certificates icon in each affected appliance’s Port 9443 admin console to

as needed.

8.5.1 Configuring the Content Editor Appliance

To enable the Content Editor appliance to work with TeamWorks, do the following.

Table 8-6 Logging in and Starting the Configuration Wizard

Page, Dialog, or Option	Do This
	Open a management browser on your administrative workstation and access the Port 9443 Appliance Console on the Content Editor appliance using the following URL: https://Content-editor_IP_or_DNS:9443 Where IP_or_DNS is the IP address or DNS name of the Content Editor appliance.
Content Editor Appliance Sign In	Log in as the vaadmin user with the password that you set for the appliance in Vaadmin password and confirmation:.
Content Editor Appliance Tools	Click the Configuration icon to launch the Content Editor Configuration Wizard.
Allowed Hosts	The installation wizard accesses the Allowed Hosts list. List each TeamWorks appliance’s DNS hostname on a separate line. For example, if you have two TeamWorks appliances, list them as follows: tw-appliance-1.my-organization.com tw-appliance-2.my-organization.com IMPORTANT:Do not substitute IP addresses for DNS hostnames in this list. Click Test Connection to make sure that the configured TeamWorks appliances are found.

To configure TeamWorks to work with Content Editor, do the following.

Table 8-7 Configuring TeamWorks to Work with Content Editor

Page, Dialog, or Option	Do This
	Open a management browser on your administrative workstation and access the Port 9443 Appliance Console on a TeamWorks appliance using the following URL: https://TeamWorks_IP_or_DNS:9443 Where IP_or_DNS is the IP address or DNS name of the TeamWorks appliance.
C Appliance Sign In	Log in as the vaadmin user with the password that you set for the appliance in Vaadmin password and confirmation:.
TeamWorks Appliance Tools	Click the Configuration icon to launch the TeamWorks Configuration Wizard.
Configuration	Click Web-based Document Editing.
Web-based Document Editing	Click Enable Web-based Document Editing. In the DNS Hostname field, type the DNS hostname of the Content Editor appliance. For example, ce-appliance.my-organization.com IMPORTANT:Do not substitute the IP addresses for the DNS hostname in this field. Click Test Connection to make sure that the Content Editor appliance is found. Click Reconfigure TeamWorks appliance.
	Access the Port 9443 console on each of the other TeamWorks appliances and reboot them as well.

Content Editor requires that users enter the TeamWorks appliance’s DNS name when accessing TeamWorks services.

Using an IP address to access TeamWorks causes Content Editor to fail.

Documents will not open for editing when an IP address was used.