iPlanet Web Server is powerful web server software essential for enterprises moving their business to the Internet. By providing high performance, reliability, and manageability, iPlanet Web Server solves the business-critical needs of some of the world's busiest web sites. iPlanet Web Server also enables rapid development and deployment of web-based applications that can enhance communication, streamline processes, and reduce costs.

High Performance and Scalability

Business-critical web sites need to provide fast and reliable service to employees, partners, and customers. iPlanet Web Server delivers high performance through optimized caching, symmetric multiprocessor support, advanced use of kernel threads, HTTP 1.1 support, and sophisticated memory management. In addition, iPlanet Web Server supports several third-party SSL hardware accelerator devices, a capability that improves performance significantly during SSL computations.

Leading Reliability and Availability

Because business on the Internet operates globally, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, web sites cannot afford downtime. High-availability features include support for multiple processes and process monitors. If a web application fails, only a single web server process goes down. The remaining processes provide failover support to keep the web site available to customers. Process monitors automatically restart the failed process without requiring intervention by a network administrator. To further enhance availability, iPlanet Web Server features a dynamic log rotation feature that enables administrators to rotate server logs without shutting down the server.

Centralized Server Management

iPlanet Web Server management tools help bring down the cost of managing and maintaining a web site. Administrators use these tools to manage users and monitor server activity in real time. By using any Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-based directory or the integrated Netscape Directory Server, iPlanet Web Server provides a centralized point from which to easily add, change, and delete user information. Cluster management enables administrators to manage multiple remote servers as a single group, start or stop a group of servers, or update configuration files remotely. Distributed administration enables an administrator to selectively delegate capabilities to specific individuals.

Rapid Application Development

Web-based applications increase productivity by enabling business professionals to share, manage, process, and find information over the Internet. Because iPlanet Web Server applications are based on HTML, JavaScript, and Java, they can be easily customized and extended to fit the information management needs of an enterprise. In addition, these applications are based on Internet-standard protocols for deployment across different networks, operating systems, and databases, allowing them to be extended to external partners and customers on an extranet. Along with traditional server extensions such as CGI and NSAPI, iPlanet Web Server provides a powerful development environment. The LiveWire database service, included in iPlanet Web Server, provides native database connectivity to information stored in Oracle, Informix, IBM DB2, and Sybase databases.

Information Sharing and Management

iPlanet Web Server improves an enterpriseนs ability to publish, share, and find information by providing advanced features for publishing and managing static and dynamic content. Its flexible, Internet-ready access controls allow an author to easily specify who may view and edit documents in the content store, allowing workgroups to manage and share critical information. This fine-grained access to resources managed by iPlanet Web Server is integrated seamlessly with the directory and security services through open Internet protocols such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and LDAP. In addition, this information can be automatically versioned by MKS's embedded revision control system and indexed by Verity's embedded integrated search engine to make this information easier to share and manage.

iPlanet Web Server

HIGH PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY

• Offers high performance through optimized caching, symmetric multiprocessor support, advanced use of kernel threads, and sophisticated memory management
  
• Enhances performance through new CGI engine, SSL, and NSAPI enhancements
  
• Increases scalability on multiple-CPU machines through its multiprocess mode
  
• Supports HTTP 1.1
  
• Supports SSL hardware accelerators to significantly increase performance for secure web sites

LEADING RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY

• Helps ensure server availability with support for multiple processes and process monitors
  
• Increases server availability and reliability by automatically restarting failed server processes without administrator intervention
  
• Reduces server downtime by rotating server logs dynamically

CENTRALIZED ADMINISTRATION AND SECURITY

• Integrates with LDAP-based directory servers
  
• Ships with runtime version of Netscape Directory Server, the leading high-performance LDAP directory server
  
• Supports NNTP-compliant clients
  
• Provides easy administration of multiple servers with cluster management
  
• Supports delegated administration
  
• Supports SNMP
  
• Integrates with common management systems, including CA/Unicenter, HP OpenView, IBM/Tivoli TME, and Sun Solstice
  
• Allows management of Access Control Lists (ACLs) without restarting the server
  
• Includes support for UTF-8 multibyte character set, SSL v3, X.509 digital certificate, and SSL hardware accelerator devices
  
• Certificate-to-LDAP mapping enables centralized certificate-based security
  
• Allows client authentication
  
• Includes support for HTAccess

RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

• Supports the development of web-based applications based on open Internet protocols that can run on the intranet, extranet, or Internet
  
• Supports server extensions for Java servlets 1.0
  
• Supports server-side JavaScript that can be included within HTML pages and executed on the server
  
• Supports native database connectivity to Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, and Informix using powerful relational-database access capabilities built on native drivers for high-performance and rich functionality; ODBC-based connectivity is also available on Windows NT
  
• Supports session management service to track information for specific user sessions
  
• Supports LiveConnect, which enables JavaScript applications to access reusable services built in Java
  
• Includes built-in Java runtime with support for JDK 1.1 and support for object serialization, JDBC, and JavaBeans
  
• Supports traditional server extensions such as CGI and NSAPI
  
• Features messaging services built on Internet-standard SMTP

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES

• Offers drag-and-drop, HTTP-based web publishing using Netscape Communicator
  
• Includes built-in Verity search engine, which provides full-text and attribute searching of both HTML and non-HTML documents
  
• Supports NNTP-compliant clients
  
• Provides integrated link management
  
• Includes built-in MKS document revision control and versioning system

Supported Platforms and System Requirements