The Cumulus Integration Platform serves as a technical interface to the entire Canto Cumulus world. As such, it can be used with all kinds of clients and solutions built on top of it, from a very simple website integration to a massive integrated and workflow-based customer portal with hundreds of users connecting.
NOTE: License Issues A Cumulus Client license is required for each authenticated user with a write access to Cumulus, being it CIP’s technical user or any other user accessing Cumulus via CIP. Independent from that, Pooling licenses may be acquired in order to increase the bandwidth for the communication between CIP and the Cumulus Server (i.e the number of simultaneous connections).
Web Application
The CIP Web application can be installed on any machine with TCP/IP network access to the Cumulus Server.
After the installation, you must additionally perform the following steps before you can use CIP:
• Activate CIP via the Remote Admin section in the Cumulus Server Console. After that, you can establish a connection to a Cumulus server. (For a detailed description, see Activation.)
• If you have installed the CIP Web Application into an already existing Web application server (e.g., Tomcat), you must additionally configure that Web application server so that it can communicate with the Cumulus Integration Platform.
CIP-SDK
For developers, Canto provides a CIP-SDK which is not included in the Web Solutions installer, but can be downloaded separately as a ZIP file. The CIP-SDK consists of a number of libraries, sample code and examples for different client-side development environments, and technical documentation. Open the folder for your development environment and take a look at the sample code you find there. You may import or open the sample project that is included with the SDK and run it as is.
To test or use the CIP-SDK, you need of course TCP/IP access to the server on which CIP is running.
How to test the installation is described in the CIP Reference Documentation, which can be found in the CIP-SDK-<version>.zip archive under „cip-sdk/webservice/doc“).
For a quick test to check the availability of the Web application, just enter [WebServer Address]:8080/CIP/system/getversion in any browser.