Complete Contents
About This Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction to Enterprise Server
Chapter 2 Administrating Enterprise Servers
Chapter 3 Setting Administration Preferences
Chapter 4 Managing Users and Groups
Chapter 5 Working with Server Security
Chapter 6 Managing Server Clusters
Chapter 7 Configuring Server Preferences
Chapter 8 Understanding Log Files
Chapter 9 Using SNMP to Monitor Servers
Chapter 10 Configuring the Server for Performance
Chapter 11 Extending Your Server with Programs
Chapter 12 Working with Configuration Styles
Chapter 13 Managing Server Content
Chapter 14 Controlling Access to Your Server
Chapter 15 Configuring Web Publishing
Chapter 16 Using Search
Appendix A HyperText Transfer Protocol
Appendix B ACL File Syntax
Appendix C Internationalized Enterprise Server
Appendix D Server Extensions for Microsoft FrontPage
Appendix E Enterprise Server User Interface
Glossary
Index
Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's Guide: About This Guide
Next Contents Index


About This Guide

This guide describes how to configure and administer Netscape Enterprise Server. 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 install and configure the Netscape 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 in the server root at manual/https/ag in your server root directory.


How This Guide Is Organized
This guide is divided into five sections. If you are new to Netscape Enterprise Server, begin with Server Basics for an overview of the Netscape Enterprise Server. If you are already familiar with Netscape Enterprise Server, skim the material in Server Basics before going on to Using Enterprise Administration Server.

Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of using Enterprise Administration Server, you can refer to Configuring and Monitoring, which includes examples of how to configure and monitor your Enterprise Servers. Using Programs and Objects provides information for using programs and configuration styles. Managing Content and Access provides information for managing your Enterprise Server content, controlling access to your Enterprise Servers, how to use Netscape Web Publisher to collaborate on projects, and how to search the contents and attributes of documents on your servers.

Finally, the 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 Enterprise Server user interface reference, which you may want to review. Note that the user interface appendix is available in the online version only.

Server Basics
This section provides an overview of the Netscape Enterprise Server. The following chapters are included:

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

  • Setting Administration Preferences describes how to use the Enterprise Administration Server Preferences and Global Settings forms to configure your Enterprise Servers.

  • Managing Users and Groups describes how to how to use the Enterprise Administration Server Users and Groups forms to configure your Enterprise Servers.

  • Working with Server Security describes how to configure your Enterprise Server security. Note that before reading this chapter you should be familiar with the basic concepts of public-key cryptography and the SSL protocol. These concepts include encryption and decryption; keys; digital certificates and signatures; and SSL encryption, ciphers, and the major steps of the SSL handshake. For more information regarding these topics, see Managing Servers with Netscape Console.

  • Managing Server Clusters describes the concept of clustering Netscape servers and explains how you can use them to share configurations among servers.
Configuring and Monitoring
This section includes examples of how to use the Server Manager to configure and monitor your Enterprise Servers. The following chapters are included:

  • Configuring Server Preferences describes how to configure server preferences for your Netscape Enterprise Server.

  • Understanding Log Files describes how to monitor your Enterprise Server using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), by recording and viewing log files, or by using the performance monitoring tools provided with your operating system.

  • Using SNMP to Monitor Servers describes how to monitor your Enterprise Server using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).

  • Configuring the Server for Performance describes how to define your server workload and sizing your system to meet your performance needs. This chapter addresses miscellaneous configuration and Unix platform-specific issues, CGI-related performance tuning problems, and other common performance issues.
Using Programs and Objects
This section provides information for using the Server Manager to programs and configuration styles. The following chapters are included:

Managing Content and Access
This section provides information for using the Server Manager to manage your Enterprise Server content, control access to your Enterprise Servers, how to use Netscape Web Publisher to collaborate on projects, and how to search the contents and attributes of documents on your servers. The following chapters are included:

  • Managing Server Content describes how you can configure and manage your server's content.

  • Controlling Access to Your Server describes the methods you can use to determine who has access to what files or directories on your web site.

  • Configuring Web Publishing describes how you can configure Enterprise Server for web publishing.

  • Using Search describes how to search the contents and attributes of documents on the server. In addition, this chapter describes how to create a customized text search interface that's tailored to your user community.
Appendixes
This section includes various appendixes for reference material that you may wish to review. This section includes the following appendixes:

In addition, a Glossary is included to define frequently used terms that may be unfamiliar to Netscape 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.

bold
Bold style is used for new terminology. All bold terms are also in the glossary.


Using the Enterprise Server Documentation
The following table lists the tasks and concepts that are described in the Netscape Enterprise Server printed 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 that the printed manuals are also available as online files in PDF and HTML format.

Table 1 Enterprise Server Documentation
For information about
See the following
Late-breaking information about the software and the documentation, See:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/server/webserver

External web site
Installing Netscape Enterprise Server and migrating your data to the new Netscape Enterprise Server 4.0, See:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/server/webserver/4.0

Installation & Migration Guide
Administering one or more Enterprise Servers using the Netscape Enterprise Administrator Server to manage and configure your servers and to perform the following tasks:

Administration Guide
The administration server and global information on topics such as encryption, access control, and performance monitoring. Note that if you install Netscape Console, an online version of this manual is available as well as the hard copy version that is shipped with Netscape Enterprise Server 4.0.

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 Netscape 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
Using the web publishing system. This manual is included with your server in HTML format.

Netshare and Web Publisher User's Guide
An overview of the programming technologies and APIs you can use to extend and modify the 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. This book also contains information about API changes from Enterprise 3.x to 4.0. Use this book as the starting place for developer-level information for Enterprise Server 4.0.

Programmer's Guide to Enterprise Server 4.0
How to enable and implement servlets and JavaServerPages (JSP) in Enterprise Server 4.0.

Programmer's Guide to Servlets in Enterprise Server 4.0
How to use Netscape Server Application Programmer's Interface (NSAPI) to build plugins to extend and modify the Enterprise Server. The book also discusses the purpose and use of the configuration files obj.conf, magnus.conf, and mime.types, and provides a comprehensive list of the directives and functions that can be used in these configuration files. It also provides a reference of the NSAPI functions you can use to define new plugins.

NSAPI Programmer's Guide for Enterprise Server 4.0


Further Reading
The Netscape DevEdge internet site contains documentation for developers, including:

To access these documents, use the following URL:

To access the Enterprise Server 4.0 Release Notes, use the following URL:


Contacting Technical Support
For product-specific Technical Support assistance, please see the Product Support Page for the Netscape Enterprise Server at:

For general Technical Support assistance, please see the Netscape Technical Support Page at: http://help.netscape.com.

 

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