Chapter 5, Load Balancing, of the Resource Kit shows you all the details of managing Load Balancing through Application Center. Deployment and Synchronization Application Center 2000 gives you great flexibility for deploying applications to clusters and controlling the synchronization of those applications across the clusters. Figure 1 shows just one possible setup of clusters, development and staging servers that supports a flexible content publishing strategy. Click to view graphic Figure 1. You can read further details of this scenario in Chapter 8, Creating Clusters and Deploying Applications, of the Resource Kit .
Synchronization is just as important to cluster management as deployment.
Application Center 2000 automatically synchronizes the settings for both the cluster controller and the application itself across all members of a cluster. You can manage full or partial synchronization, and Application Center will take care of all the details. Monitoring and Management Application Center's management console not only shows you your clusters, but all the information you need to monitor and manage those clusters. Click to view graphic Figure 2. The Application Center 2000 management console allows you to access Health Monitor as well as events at the cluster and server level.