Overview of the FMS server configuration file

The FMS server configuration file (fsc.xml) is installed for each server. This file identifies the server configuration within the system. Optionally, it can override FSC and FCC parameter defaults specified in the fmsmaster_fscid.xml file. The fsc.xml file is located in the FSC_HOME directory. See the FSC_HOME/fsc.xml.template file for all available elements. A basic FSC configuration file contains the following elements: fscconfig The outer containing XML element. fscdefaults Defines or overrides FSC default values from the primary configuration file (fmsmaster_fscid.xml). fmsmaster Specifies the location from which to download FMS configuration information. The location can be either the disk location of the fmsmaster_fscid.xml file or the address of another FSC. Downloaded FMS configuration information results from the merge of the fmsmaster_fscid.xml file and the fsc.xml file of the FSC from which the configuration is downloaded. Resulting FSC configuration information results from the merge of the fmsmaster_fscid.xml file and the local fsc.xml file of the FSC from which the configuration is downloaded. FSC configuration paths can branch and can be any depth. You can specify more than one FSC for configuration download to provide configuration server failover. fsc Specifies the identity of the installed FSC. This identity must match an FSC defined in the primary configuration file and be within an FSC group. Note fccdefaults elements have been deprecated from fsc.xml. Place fccdefaults elements in fmsmaster.xml, as they apply to the configuration of clients assigned to the FSC in question using the clientmap. A complete set of each FSC's fccdefaults parameter defaults (not including those set in the client's fcc.xml file) is available from any FSC configuration server. This is not the case when fccdefaults elements are placed in an fsc.xml configuration file, so Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends not placing any fccdefaults elements in fsc.xml.