Activating the CMS

Activation

The Activation page is where you enable the NATS Content Management System. This process sets up the essential components needed for the CMS to function, ensuring you can begin building and managing your site right away.

Once complete, you'll be able to access all CMS features.

What Activation Does

When you click Activate, the system will automatically configure the following:

Local Content Server

Important: TMM recommends using an Object Storage + CDN solution to store your content on a separate storage system, rather than on your NATS server, to prevent any performance hits to NATS.

Creates a Local Content Server to store and serve your content from the same location as NATS. In addition to creating the Content Server, this step configures a directory where content will be stored on your NATS server at the following path:

/nats/www/cms_images/cms_data/

API-Only User(natscmsworker)

Creates and configures an affiliate account titled "natscmsworker" with the account type set to API Account to process CMS requests. This limits the actions the account takes to the following:

• transcode-take - Reserves a transcoding job from the queue.

• transcode-complete - Reports a finished transcoding job to the queue.

• transcode-release - Abandon a transcoding job to the queue.

• transcode-update - Set the transcoding job progress.

Default Worker Script

Configures a default worker script to use the natscmsworker account to process content.

API Access from Your Server

Sets the "Admin API Allowed IPs" configuration to your NATS server IP to allow the CMS to send API requests from your server.

Next Steps

After activating the CMS, you may want to:

• Learn about Themes

• Explore Blocks

• Understand Channels

• Create a site using the CMS