Chapter 4. Operational considerations

This chapter discusses the operational aspect of running a Linux Web server.

The discussion here is aimed at keeping the product that constitutes the

application that is running, which is categorized into:

  IBM HTTP server

  IBM WebSphere Application Server

  IBM Database 2

  Lotus Domino Enterprise Server

The discussion is divided into:

  Section 4.1,  Facility administration  on page 107

  Section 4.2,  Facility monitoring  on page 123

  Section 4.3,  Routine maintenance  on page 129

  Section 4.4,  Troubleshooting overview  on page 134

4.1 Facility administration

This section describe some administrative operations that we perform in

maintaining the Web solution. Most of the startup and shutdown processes

are performed automatically at boot or shutdown of the operating system,

however, some knowledge of the manual operation is mandatory. These

administration tasks are presented in the following sections:

  Section 4.1.1,  IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere administration  on page

107 describes Web server administration.

  Section 4.1.2,  DB2 operation  on page 117 describes DB2 operational

considerations.

  Section 4.1.3,  Domino operation  on page 119 describes Domino

operational considerations.

4.1.1 IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere administration

Basically, the IBM HTTP Server is an Apache Web server. There are several

excellent Web pages that discusses the administration of the HTTP server,

such as:

http://www.ibm.com/software/Web servers

http://www.apache.org

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