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Chapter 5 Deploying the Production System

After you have planned your environment, determined your system capacity, and run performance tests, it's time to deploy your production system and take Netscape Application Server (NAS) to a live staging environment.

This chapter discusses guidelines for bringing NAS into production, and includes the following sections:


Deploying Applications
After you install Netscape Application Server (NAS), you must deploy your applications. Typically, you develop an application on a development machine. Before you can use it, however, you must deploy the application to a destination server, in other words, one of the NAS machines that you have deployed in your enterprise.

For information about deploying and upgrading applications, see Chapter 2, "Deploying and Upgrading Applications," in the Administration Guide.


Deploying a Pilot System
At this point in the deployment cycle you should have a good idea what your system environment is, what kind of capacity it can support, what your system and application needs are, and what steps you can take to improve system performance. However, before you take NAS live into your enterprise, you might want to consider running a pilot program first. The advantages of having a pilot phase are that you can:


Deployment Checklist
The following checklist runs through information to gather and think about before you take Netscape Application Server (NAS) into production. These questions are explored throughout this guide and in other NAS documentation.


Fine-Tuning the Production System
After you install and start to use Netscape Application Server, you will likely find some bottlenecks that you thought you had resolved during the stress and performance testing phase. Take the opportunity during the pilot system phase, and after deploying the final production system, to continue fine-tuning your system following the suggestions made in Chapter 4, "Performance Testing and Fine-Tuning Your System."

 

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