Introduction to Teamcenter client communication system (TCCS)

As an enterprise class application, Teamcenter works within company infrastructure and security policies. Teamcenter accommodates company infrastructure such as forward proxies, reverse proxies, commercial single sign-on (SSO) integrations, and secure sockets layer (SSL), among others. Teamcenter client communication system (TCCS) is a centralized tool to configure these points of contact between a company’s infrastructure and Teamcenter. TCCS includes the following features for supported clients: Forward proxy support A forward proxy server takes requests from an internal network and forwards them to the Internet. TCCS provides centralized forward proxy support to supported Teamcenter clients configured to use TCCS for SOA/web tier requests. TCCS also provides forward proxy credentials sharing and reuse across supported Teamcenter client applications. The FCC also uses TCCS forward proxy support. Reverse proxy support A reverse proxy server takes requests from the Internet and forwards them to servers in an internal network. TCCS provides centralized reverse proxy support (for supported proxies) to supported Teamcenter clients configured to use TCCS for SOA/web tier requests. Reverse proxy challenges and cookie storage is managed by Security Services (SSO). Therefore, reverse proxy for WebSEAL is only supported in environments for which SSO is enabled. The FCC also uses TCCS reverse proxy support. Centralized network configuration Provides centralized configuration for defining web tier, SSO URLs, and forward proxy configurations. Supported Teamcenter clients refer to a common configuration defined in TCCS. The ability to specify specific environments to be used with a given TCCS connection is provided. Teamcenter client communication system (TCCS) provides transport-level support to manage communication between the following Teamcenter clients and the web tier or the FMS server cache (FSC): Business Modeler IDE Client for Office Lifecycle Visualization NX Rich client Solid Edge TcPMM TCCS is a container application that contains the following Teamcenter applications: Teamcenter server proxy (TSP) TSP manages HTTP communications for Teamcenter server (TcServer) requests. It accepts client requests over secured pipes using a proprietary protocol and submits the requests over HTTP to the web tier endpoint. TSP uses the TcProxyClient component and forward proxy configuration to support forward and reverse proxy servers. Use the tspstat utility to administer and obtain run-time statistics from TSP. Teamcenter model event manager (TcMEM) TcMEM manages event synchronization across service-oriented architecture (SOA) clients sharing the same Teamcenter server instance. Use the tcmemstat utility to administer and obtain run-time statistics from TcMEM. FMS client cache (FCC) The FCC provides a private user-level cache, just as web browsers provide a read file cache. It also provides a high-performance cache for both downloaded and uploaded files. The FCC provides proxy interfaces to client programs and connectivity to the server caches and volumes. The FCC accepts client requests over secure pipe connections and submits them to the appropriate FMS server cache (FSC) process. It uses the TcProxyClient component and forward proxy configuration to support forward and reverse proxy servers. Use the fccstat utility to administer and obtain run-time statistics from the FCC. Note TCCS and all its container applications run simultaneously. Starting, stopping, or reconfiguring TCCS (or any of its applications) propagates the same action to all. TCCS installation is included in a Teamcenter client installation. Clients using TCCS can use client-certificate authentication through secure sockets layer (SSL) settings.