Description:
Ordering the resource kits to supplement Microsoft Corporation software is pretty much standard procedure in a lot of technology departments. Microsoft Application Center Resource Kit will satisfy those buyers, as well as--more importantly, perhaps--experts from technology shops who don't buy every resource kit that comes along. This book explains the orthodox way of implementing Application Center 2000, as envisioned by the people who developed the clustering and load-balancing solution for server farms and data centers. You'll learn a lot from the printed documentation that makes up the bulk of this product, and you'll be grateful for the collection of software that appears on the companion CD-ROM, especially if you're working with something other than a straight vanilla Application Center installation. This book's documentation runs, appropriately, more along the lines of tables and diagrams from which administrators and consultants can draw their own conclusions than toward explicit procedures, though there are some sequenced steps (especially where a resource kit utility is involved). The explanations of what talks to what when, and why, should prove helpful to people doing troubleshooting work, and Component Load Balancing (CLB) is better explained here than anywhere else. Utilities on the CD-ROM include a remote monitoring tool, a stress tester, a SQL Server event monitor, and lots of other cool toys. --David Wall Topics covered: The inner workings of Microsoft Application Center 2000. Documentation explains cluster services, load balancing, deployment, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
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