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About This Guide


This guide describes how to configure and administer Netscape® Enterprise Server, Version 6.1. It is intended for information technology administrators in the corporate enterprise who want to extend client-server applications to a broader audience through the World Wide Web.

This preface includes the following sections:

What's In This Guide?

This guide explains how to configure and administer the Enterprise Server. After configuring your server, use this guide to help maintain your server.

After you install the server, this guide is available in HTML format at manual/https/ag in your server root directory. By default, the server root directory is C:\Netscape\Server6\ or /usr/netscape/server6.

How This Guide Is Organized

This guide is divided into five parts, plus a glossary, and a comprehensive index. If you are new to Netscape Enterprise Server 6.1, begin with Part I, "Server Basics" for an overview of the product. If you are already familiar with this version of Enterprise Server, skim the material in Part I, "Server Basics" before going on to Part II, "Using the Administration Server."

Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of using the Administration Server, you can refer to Part III, "Configuring, Monitoring, and Performance Tuning," which includes examples of how to configure and monitor your Enterprise Servers. Part IV, "Managing Virtual Servers and Services" provides information for using programs and configuration styles.

Finally, Appendices address specific reference topics that describe the various topics, including: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), server configuration files, ACL files, internationalization issues, server extensions, and the Netscape Enterprise Server user interface reference, which you may want to review. Note that the user interface appendix is available in the online version only.

Part I: Server Basics

This part provides an overview of the Enterprise Server. The following chapters are included:

Part II: Using the Administration Server

This part provides conceptual and procedural details about using the Administration Server to administer your Enterprise Servers. The following chapters are included:

Part III: Configuring, Monitoring, and Performance Tuning

This part includes examples of how to use the Server Manager to configure and monitor your Enterprise Servers. The following chapters are included:

Part IV: Managing Virtual Servers and Services

This part provides information for using the Server Manager to programs and configuration styles. The following chapters are included:

Part V: Appendices

This section includes various appendices with reference material that you may wish to review. This section includes the following appendices:

In addition, a glossary is included to define frequently used terms that may be unfamiliar to Enterprise Server administrators.

Conventions Used In This Guide

The conventions used in this guide are as follows:

Italic

This typeface is used for book titles, emphasis, and any text that is a placeholder for text you need to replace for your system. For example, in a URL that contains a reference to your server's port number, the URL might contain portnumber in italics. Replace the words in italics with the actual value for your server.

Monospaced font

This typeface is used for any text that you should type. It's also used for functions, examples, URLs, filenames, and directory paths.

Using the Enterprise Server Documentation

The following table lists the tasks and concepts that are described in the Enterprise Server manuals and online README file. If you are trying to accomplish a specific task or learn more about a specific concept, refer to the appropriate manual.

Note  

Enterprise Server manuals are also available in PDF and HTML format at enterprise.netscape.com/docs.




Table 1    Enterprise Server Documentation 


For information about

See the following

Late-breaking information about the software and the documentation.

Netscape Enterprise Server Release Notes

Installing Enterprise Server

Netscape Enterprise Server Installation and Migration Guide

Administering one or more Enterprise Servers using the Administration Server to manage and configure your servers and to perform the following tasks:

  • Setting up server security.
  • Monitoring your servers using HTTP, via log files, SNMP, or via the tools provided with your OS.
  • Defining your server workload and sizing your system to meet your performance needs.
  • Installing Java applets, CGI programs, and other plug-ins onto your server.

Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide

The administration server and global information on topics such as encryption, access control, and performance monitoring.

Managing Servers with Netscape Console

Planning your directory service. How you can use the directory server to support simple usage that involves only a few hundred users and some key server applications, as well as how you can scale the directory server to support millions of users. You are also introduced to the basic directory service concepts and specific guidelines that you will need to deploy a production-grade directory service.

Netscape Directory Server Deployment Manual

An overview of the programming technologies and APIs you can use to extend and modify Enterprise Server, to dynamically generate content in response to client requests, and to modify the content of the server. Links are provided to the individual books that discuss each API. Use this book as the starting place for developer-level information for Enterprise Server. The book also discusses the purpose and use of the configuration files, and provides a comprehensive list of the directives and functions that can be used in these configuration files.

Netscape Enterprise Server Programmer's Guide

How to enable and implement servlets and JavaServer PagesTM (JSP) in Enterprise Server.

Netscape Enterprise Server Programmer's Guide to Servlets

How to use Netscape Server Application Programmer's Interface (NSAPI) to build plugins to extend and modify the Enterprise Server. It also provides a reference of the NSAPI functions you can use to define new plugins.

Netscape Enterprise Server NSAPI Programmer's Guide




 


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