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Deployment & Replication

Discover the power of GX WebManager for System Administrators and Application Managers. Import, maintain and update hot pluggable components, tweak your system for high visitor volume and peak loads, control DTAP environments, build your own repository and define the right architecture for optimal performance with the Enterprise Web Content Management System.

Performance Dashboard

The performance of a high availability Content Management System (CMS) such as GX WebManager is based on many factors and parameters. GX WebManager is extended with a Performance Dashboard component which gives application managers and system administrators more insight in these parameters and bundles the key performance indicators on a central location. This will provide real-time information like memory usage, number of sessions, query and page response times. This guarantees your website always to perform optimal and your visitors never have to wait too long.

WCB Management Console

GX WebManager is based on a modular architecture. In GX WebManager, modules or add-ons are referred to as WebManager Component Bundles (WCBs). WCBs have a Java API that complies with the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) platform for bundles.

With the Web Component Bundle Management Console you can install and uninstall standard and custom add on components and start and stop them during runtime . In addition, you can register newly developed WCBs at the WCM Exchange web site - GX’s marketplace for web content management add-ons. This site keeps an overview of all WCBs that are developed by GX and partners. After registering a newly developed WCB, you can request that GX certify the WCB. Certification improves the consistency and maintainability of WCBs.

When the WCB Management Console is started, it tries to set up a connection with the certification service of the WCM Exchange. If the connection can be made, the WCB Management Console fetches the certification levels of its installed WCBs and displays this and other information about the WCB in the WCB Management Console.

DTAP Environments

DTAP stands for Develop, Test, Accept and Produce. Because your main goal is to guarantee that all servers are identical for every setting, the application installed should be rigorously and thoroughly tested. To ensure this, several environments are needed. GX Webmanager facilitates the various deployment stages of your webprojects.

Failover

Failover is the capability to automatically switch over to a redundant or standby computer server, system, or network in the event of the failure or abnormal termination of an active server, system, or network. Failover happens without human intervention and generally without warning. WebManager provides failover capabilities to ensure a high degree of availability and the reliability of your online business.

Load balancing

Load balancing is a technique for spreading work between two or more servers in order to obtain optimal resource utilization, throughput, and/or response time. Using multiple components with load balancing instead of a single component increases reliability through redundancy. The GX WebManager facilitates load balanced configurations in high-availability clusters.

Database Maintenance

With the database maintenance panel you can maintain database connections used by GX WebManager. GX WebManager can interface with one or more databases of different types, such as MySQL, MS SQL and Oracle. A database server may accommodate one or more databases. With this tool, you can configure database connections, view the contents of tables and execute SQL queries.

System Administration

The System Administration component offers developers and administrators a tool to fine tune the configuration of the different web initiatives (sites) in one installation. The entire installation, configuration, content, and structure can be maintained, simple tests can be performed, database connections can be changed, updates can be implemented, etc. For instance, content, object types, and WCAs (WebManager Component Archives) can be imported and exported and uploads can be centrally maintained.

WCB Content Import/Export

A WebManager Component Bundle (WCB) can add extra functionality to GX WebManager. Depending on the type of functionality, editors can enter WCB dependent content. The WCB Content Import/Export allows you to import and export existing relevant WCB content.

Application Management

GX WebManager’s Application Management offers maintenance options for the general settings of one or more web initiatives (sites). Although most settings are defined during the website installation, modifications are sometimes necessary. The Application Management component offers the website administrator several customization options.

Distributed WebManager

In addition to caching, a high availability component can be implemented for distributed use in GX WebManager. This way, the underlying architecture can be split over multiple machines to ease load balancing, resulting in scalability and redundancy advantages leaving no single point of failure in the GX architecture. You can, for example, transparently update and install technical updates and perform maintenance without any impact on the live environment.

Caching (Reverse Proxy)

This functionality is particularly relevant for frequently visited or highly interactive websites. Websites using a Content Management System CMS generate pages dynamically. With the Caching module, a reverse proxy is used to deliver the Website content. Caching has the advantage of precluding the need to re-generate pages or parts of pages that don’t change frequently. The server load is thereby decreased considerably, reducing (hardware) costs while at the same time allowing content to be delivered quickly to the visitors, even if it is personalized content. GX WebManager provides an intelligent granular delivery layer that caches when possible but delivers dynamically when needed.

JCR Browser

The JCR browser is a module for exploring the Java Content Repository (JCR) on top of which GX WebManager is build natively. The module allows you to browse through the JCR tree by expanding and collapsing sub trees. You can create, move and delete nodes and properties in the JCR tree. The module manages constraints and the JCR browser enables you to create and perform queries for locating specific content. The JCR browser supports both the XPath and SQL syntaxes.