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JTransit FrontLine is used to install and update your licensed JTransit products.
JTransit FrontLine Global Peer-to-Peer Monitoring Service uses the default installation of JTransit FrontLine to participate in the Peer-to-Peer network. If you are not currently using JTransit products that included a FrontLine installation on your system, you can still participate in the Peer-to-Peer monitoring network by installing JTransit FrontLine. The software download is free and the network membership can be purchased here.
JTransit FrontLine Pro is what you need to use the FrontLine Protocol Servers.
JTransit FrontLine Enterprise is what you need to operate a private peer-to-peer monitoring network and to provide intallation and update services for your own application distributions.
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JTransit FrontLine is new in JTransit 2. FrontLine is a configuration management utility for handling on-line downloads and consistent configuration in an automated server environment. It is a deployment tool that makes sure newer versions of files are automatically distributed to a cluster of machines. It is also a monitoring mechanism for ensuring that automatic updates are made consistently. We use it to deploy all JTransit components to you and keep them up-to-date. FrontLine helps to avoid mistakes and saves you a significant amount of work by automating and standardizing tedious installation and configuration processes. Use the FrontLine Enterprise edition to keep your clients' servers (or your complete intranet) up-to-date with all your own software and configuration information as well.
FrontLine Global Peer-to-Peer Monitoring services provide the option to join our network of peer-to-peer FrontLine servers to monitor your website or any web application. The service provides access to real-time statistical reports on all monitored URLs including geographic performance data. Get notified with down to 30 seconds (configurable) average response time (compare to other expensive monitoring tools that only give you 600-second resolution).
FrontLine Pro incorporates fully-scriptable "protocol servers" that understand Tango, ColdFusion, and Velocity scripts, and communicate with the outside world using SMTP, POP3, and FTP. You can quickly create a fully-dynamic presence using these protocols just as you are used to doing with HTTP over the web. Imagine creating a mail-based site just as you would do for your web site, to provide clients with dynamic, database-driven email reports, free email accounts for all users in your database, database mailing lists and discussion groups, or any other purpose you can dream up. Use FTP to allow your customers to upload and download files directly into your database and even create and manipulate virtual "folder" structures with any FTP client they choose. Other protocols are planned for future releases including NNTP, telnet, and possibly IMAP, LDAP, SSH/SCP, SNMP, and HTTP (let us know if we missed any you need!).
What do you need?
JRE 1.3 or later (available for free from Sun, or use any other 1.3-compatible JVM for your desired platform).
Why do you care?
Because ensuring you have a consistently configured web services offering is the only way to ensure that your customers have the best quality of service. Configurations are getting more and more complex and automatic configuration (or reconfiguration) of a web application is essential to a successful deployment.
After deployment, monitoring insures your quality of service is maintained for the long haul. Finally, managing your complete internet presence is powerful and becoming increasingly important with internet-savvy clients - don't cripple your application by using HTTP-only application servers.
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