Sitecore MaxMind Options

Question

Sitecore 6.6 (update 4).

MaxMind has the ability for a Sitecore search service that integrates with DMS. MaxMind also has several more general web services.

Can I use "shared" web services in conjunction with Sitecore / DMS, or am I limited to using the version of Sitecore? If there are no restrictions, what reasons should I use for the Sitecore version, since it is more expensive.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Sitecore DMS uses MaxMind Web Services by default. Sitecore DMS has a MaxMindProvider class that extends the LookupProviderBase class and collects visitor information in a way that works well with the Sitecore approach.

I assume that the MaxMind services for Sitecore are more expensive (I did not check it, but this is what you wrote in the question), because they are prepared for Sitecore , and you do not need to do any encodings to enable them, - from boxes with a clean installation of Sitecore DMS .

Nevertheless, you can use your own provider for GeoIP data and implement it in your own way, for example. using standard MaxMind services.

Answer 2

You can change it if you want: Sitecore GeoIP Country Resolving - go to Lightspeed . The Marketplace has a GeoLite Resolution Module , which uses the freely accessible GeoLite database from MaxMind.

MaxMind configured as a provider in Sitecore.Analytics.Config

Answer 3

I do not believe that there is a limit to what you can use. Looking up is done through the provider, so if you want to implement your own using other Max Mind services, then you can do it. Just change the search manager provider in the Sitecore.Analytics.config file in the App_Condfig / Include folder:

 <lookupManager defaultProvider="default"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="default" type="Sitecore.Analytics.Lookups.MaxMindProvider,Sitecore.Analytics"/> </providers> </lookupManager> 

For what reason, using Sitecore as the default for your own, although the Sitecore version for the MaxMind service may be a little expensive, it is probably not as expensive as the time it takes to create your own. Nothing bothers you :))