Archivematica 1.7.2 is a legacy release, and these documents are no longer being maintained.

Customization and automation

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Configuring microservices using the dashboard

It is possible for administrators or end-users to automate almost all of Archivematica’s microservices by preconfiguring choices using the Administration tab of the dashboard.

Preservation planning configuration

The Preservation Planning tab allows editing or addition of commands for identification, tools, characterization, event detail, extraction, normalization, transcription, validation and verification. Please see the Preservation Planning for instruction.

Antivirus configuration

Antivirus can be customized through various operating system environment variables rather than via the Dashboard. See Antivirus Administration

Resources for development configuration

When processing a SIP or transfer, you may automate workflow choices by putting a processingMCP.xml file into the root directory of a SIP/transfer. See Processing configuration.

The MCP is the core of the Archivematica system. It controls the various micro-services in the Archivematica system. Developers who wish to modify the MCP configuration should consult the following resources on the Archivematica wiki:

For other development resources, please see the Development section of our wiki.

Task output capturing configuration

When Archivematica’s MCP client (a Gearman worker) runs a client script in order to perform a preservation task, e.g., normalizing a single file, that client script may write data to standard streams, i.e., standard output (stdout) or standard error (stderr). By default, the worker serializes those outputs and sends them back to the MCP server (the task manager), at which point they are stored in the database (the Tasks table). However, in some cases these outputs may be quite large and the job of serializing and moving them around can have a noticeable performance impact. For this reason, Archivematica allows users to configure their MCP clients in order to control whether or not these output streams are captured. See Task output capturing configuration for more details.

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