Using RealServer

RealServer 5.0 comes with four graphical applications that you can use to start and stop RealServer and to monitor performance: the Administration Page, the Java Performance Monitor, the System Manager, and the Control Center. In addition, command line utilities that perform a subset of these functions are available.

The Administration Page, the Java Performance Monitor and the Server Manager are primarily for viewing server status; Control Center is used to start and stop the server. The Administration Page can stop the server, but cannot start it.

The following table lists the capabilities of the three applications:

Administration Page

Java Performance Monitor

System Manager

Control Center
Start and stop server

Stop server only

No

No

Yes
Configure server settings

No

Yes

Yes

No
Track number of visitors connected

Yes

Yes

Yes

No
Show number of listeners per clip, bandwidth

No

Yes

Yes

No
View remotely via Web browser on any computer

Yes

Yes

No

No
Must be run on same computer as server

No

No

No

Yes
Operating system

All

All

Windows 95, Windows NT; under UNIX as command line

Windows 95, Windows NT

Windows users can take advantage of all four applications and the command line utilities to perform all functions. On the UNIX platform, the Java Performance Monitor can be used to observe server activity and the command line utilities can be used to start and stop the server.

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