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Deploying With the Monitor Application

 Monitor is an application that facilitates the administration of local and remote deployments of WebObjects applications. Itself a WebObjects application, Monitor provides a simple graphical user interface for performing common administrative tasks such as:

Monitor's interface reflects three distinct configurable entities: applications, instances, and hosts. An "application" represents a WebObjects application abstractly. An "instance" represents a specific instance of an application on a particular host; an instance is either running or stopped. A "host" represents a server available to run instances of WebObjects applications.

Setting Up the Monitor Application

When WebObjects is installed, the Monitor application (Monitor.woa) is put in NEXT_ROOT/Library/WebObjects/Applications/. Monitor's images should also be installed in your web server's document root under DOC_ROOT/WebObjects/Monitor.woa. Verify that both these paths exist before you attempt to start Monitor.

Depending on your platform and on other factors related to your deployment, you might want to configure your server to launch Monitor automatically when it starts up. If you're using Monitor on Windows NT, then see "Setting up Monitor and MonitorProxy as Services on Windows NT" , which describes how to set up Monitor as a service.

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