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.