Professional Application Center 2000

• How to install, configure and manage Application Center 2000
• How to deploy web sites, and web applications on a server cluster
• How to manage client state on a server cluster
• How to load-balance requests on web sites and application components
• How to stress-test your web applications
• How to monitor your server cluster and web applications

This book shows how you can use Application Center to make your web sites more scalable, more robust, more reliable, and easier to maintain. It looks at the configuration and administration options you need get started, and gives examples of how to build pages, components, and whole applications that take advantage of Application Center's capabilities. Also discussed are issues such as testing your sites and applications, and measuring the loads that they can support.

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Scalable Web Sites and Web Applications
• Chapter 2: Creating and Managing Web Clusters
• Chapter 3: Deploying Web Sites and Web Applications
• Chapter 4: Managing Client State and Server Logs
• Chapter 5: Component Load Balancing in Application Center
• Chapter 6: Stress Testing Web Applications
• Chapter 7: Using the Web Application Stress Tool
• Chapter 8: Monitoring Server Clusters and Applications
• Chapter 9: Creating Custom Monitors and Alerts in Application Center
• Appendix A: WMI Events
• Appendix B: Command Line Reference