About this guide

This guide provides a general information on how to monitor, manage, and configure Infor Enterprise Collaborator (IEC), also known as EC, as an application in Infor ION Grid. This guide also contains EC client tools administration and monitoring concepts and tasks.

This guide is not to be used as a complete self-study guide on how to manage applications in grid. The reader is expected to have sufficient back-ground knowledge on Grid, grid applications, and grid management.

Intended audience

This guide is for EC Application administrators, system administrators, application engineers, and business consultants.

To be able to perform administration and configuration tasks, you must be experienced and knowledgeable in these areas:

  • Grid administration concepts

  • LifeCycle Manager client concepts

  • XML and XML schema concepts such as elements, attributes, namespaces, and schemas

  • Communication protocols

  • Programming concepts such as input and output parameters, loops, and execution flow control

  • Java Programming for the custom extensions, for example, channel development, file naming, and detections

Related documents

Use this guide as primary reference for the EC Application in grid. Use the current editions of these additional references to find related information:

  • M3 Core Installation Guide

    Use this guide to understand how to install and set the configurations of server part and client tools of IEC product.

  • Infor Enterprise Collaborator Partner Administration Tool User Guide

    Use this guide to understand how to use the Partner Administration (PA) client tool to create partner agreements and understand the relationship between a partner agreement information model and the PA client tool.

  • Infor Enterprise Collaborator Flat File Definition Tool User Guide

    Use this guide to understand how to create and manage flat files, and understand how the flat file definition tool processes flat file messages.

  • Business Document Mapper User Guide

    Use this guide to understand how to use, create, and deploy mappings and manage Business Document Mapper.