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Registering your Nuxeo

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application with Nuxeo Connect will give you access to a wide range of services, such as:

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  • Update Center, so that you can easily install patches and bug fixes,
  • a global view of your open support tickets,
  • Nuxeo Marketplace, the app store for the Nuxeo community

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  • , that provides an easy and powerful way to add features and plugins to your Nuxeo application

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  • ,
  • an automatic update of your Nuxeo Studio configuration, including hot redeploy.

The registration process only copies a file on your file system. This enables the Nuxeo Connect portal to identify the instance among all the registered instances. You can register multiple instances.

Here are the different ways to register your Nuxeo instance:

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How

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To be able to register, you need to have a Nuxeo Connect account.

Registration can be done online or offline. during the installation steps, using the configuration wizard or at anytime later, through the Admin Center. Registration doesn't require an Internet access. If your server cannot connect to the internet, follow the offline registration steps. Otherwise, follow the online registration steps.

For development instances on which you may need to remove your data, you may need to re-register your instance. In that case, use the offline registration form.

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Creating your Nuxeo Connect account
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If you already have an account on Nuxeo Connect, either because you are a Nuxeo customer, or because you created a trial, you can continue to the next step. If not, follow those steps to get credentials to the Nuxeo Connect portal.

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To subscribe to a Connect trial:

  1. Go to the Connect trial registration form.
  2. Fill the form. Provide a valid email address or else registration will not be completed.
  3. Confirm registration by clicking on the link sent to the email address in the previous step.
  4. If it is not already done, download last published version of Nuxeo DM.

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Registering online
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  1. Start your Nuxeo instance and connect with Administrator/Administrator (or your administrator password if it is already customized).
  2. Click on the Nuxeo Admin Center link, on the top of the user interface to go to the Administration Center.
  3. Click on the Nuxeo Connect link, on the left side.
  4. Authenticate to Nuxeo Connect portal by giving your credentials.
  5. Choose which application is concerned among the ones your recorded in Nuxeo Connect.
  6. Give a description of your registration, like "Jolene's instance" and indicate if it is a development, qualification or production instance (just for our information).
  7. The registration process will end automatically, you can now browse the various tabs of the Update Center area, and set up plugins from the Nuxeo Marketplace, see the how to.

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Registering offline
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Offline registration can be used for first registration when the server doesn't connect to the internet. It is also used for registration.

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To register your instance for the first time:

  1. Start your Nuxeo instance and connect with Administrator/Administrator (or your administrator password if it is already customized).
  2. Click on the Nuxeo Admin Center link, on the top of the user interface.
  3. Click on the Nuxeo Connect link, on the left side.
  4. On the right part of the registration screen, get the instance technical identifier called CTID (ex:Mac OS X-EbMKUsirT9WQszM5mDkaKAp=-BhnJsMDaabDHAQ0A300d6Q==) and store it in a file so that you can connect to internet (or just copy it if the machine from which you have access to the Admin Center has internet).
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  5. Go to Nuxeo Connect portal.
    You will arrive on your application page, and will see all the information regarding the application that was declared when you created your account.
  6. On the "Instances" area, click on the Add a new instance link.
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  7. Fill in the registration form and submit it.
    The instance is registered. You are given an identifier (CLID) to validate registration from Nuxeo Admin Center.
  8. Copy this identifier.
  9. On the Admin Center, fill in the instance description, paste the CLID from Nuxeo Connect and click on the Register this instance button.
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    The registration is approved and the registration summary is displayed.
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Re-

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If you have removed your data from your Nuxeo application, in case of a development instance, for example, you will need to register your instance again.

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To re-register your instance:

  1. Log in to Nuxeo Connect.
  2. In the associated instances, click on your Nuxeo instances link.
    The page listing the associated instances for your project opens.
  3. Copy the Identifier of the instance you want to register (Identifier is of the form "fdedaf21-be00-412e-b0ab-f2394479d5f8--885dcf60-5a4a-46e8-a904-0123456789ab").
  4. In Nuxeo Admin Center, paste this identifier in the CLID field, fill in the instance description and click on the Register this instance button.
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    Your instance is registered again and the registration summary is displayed.
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