1. Preface

1.1. About the Deployment Guide

The OpenSplice Deployment Guide is intended to provide a complete reference on how to configure the OpenSplice service and tune it as required.

The Deployment Guide is included with the OpenSplice Documentation Set.

The Deployment Guide is intended to be used after reading and following the instructions in the OpenSplice Getting Started Guide.

1.2. Intended Audience

The Deployment Guide is intended to be used by anyone who wishes to use and configure OpenSplice.

1.3. Organisation

The Overview gives a general description of the OpenSplice architecture.

This is followed by Service Descriptions, which explain how OpenSplice provides integration of real-time DDS and the non-/near-real-time enterprise DBMS domains.

The Tools section introduces the OpenSplice system management tools.

Full details of the configuration elements and attributes of all OpenSplice services are given in the Configuration section.

1.4. Conventions

The icons shown below are used in ZettaScale product documentation to help readers to quickly identify information relevant to their specific use of OpenSplice.

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	C language specific.
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