For a global company, there are always needs for multiple FCS sites. While if their VPN only have limited bandwidth, how to set up FCS to reduce the network usage. Here is some tips for this. note this only apply to On-premise environment.

1. Apache for remote FCS is needed on remote FCS server. To prevent from download from center apache. Proxy FCS apache to corresponding FCS tomee.

2. File Converter is needed for FCS to reduce the transfer of files for converter. So also install file converter which is component of 3DSpace Index.

3. Centralized Replication Trigger is needed to be enabled for star topology network.

To enable this, use mql: mod store STORENAME trigger  com.matrixone.fcs.backend.ReplicateThroughStore;

4. Use ENOFCSSyncServer.sh / ENOFCSSyncServer.bat define corresponding rules for FCS synchronization, Compression can be enabled using rules. Up to 7x reduction in bandwidth utilization has been measured.

The zip flag can be used in any rule to compress the file synchronization streams generated by the rule

https://help.3ds.com/2023x/english/dsdoc/FcsAdminMap/fcs-c-sync-server-setup.htm?contextscope=onpremise#compression-definitions

5. Use “Bucket mode’ to group files to transfer, this can improve FCS synchronization performance across the WAN.

Size and file number limit can be modified. (fcssettings.syncmaxsize and fcssettings.syncmaxfilenum)

https://help.3ds.com/2023x/english/dsdoc/FcsAdminMap/fcs-c-bucket-replication.htm?contextscope=onpremise