About Platform

Platform is the only robust PHP production environment that ensures your applications run smoothly at all times.

Designed for IT personnel and businesses that require industrial-strength applications in highly reliable production environments, Platform offers high performance and scalability to provide your customers with the best possible Web experience and response time.

Platform uniquely guarantees application up time and reliability through enhanced PHP monitoring and immediate problem resolution that removes the troubleshooting guesswork out of the equation and replaces it with peace-of-mind.

You spent time and money developing your state-of-the-art PHP application, now it is time to ensure it's up and running.

Navigation

Platform is a browser-based application. The general layout of functionality is in a tabbed view, where each tab represents a unique functionality.

Platform Tab - Management functionality
PHP Intelligence - Monitoring and event generation capabilities
Introduction to Performance - Performance enhancement tools
Configuration - Integration settings and PHP configurations
Session Clustering - Session Clustering statistics
Zend Download Server (ZDS) - Configure settings for the Zend Download Server to offload large downloads
Job Queues - Streamline offline processing
Integration - Incorporate a Java environment to enrich your applications

The tab colors indicate the server type that is determined by the license type you have. The pale blue tabs belong to the Performance Management Server and the darker blue tabs belong to the Enterprise and Integration servers.

A Central Control Center

Platform handles clusters and standalone servers. As such, you can use the Administration Console to transparently navigate between the Central Server and nodes.

You stay on the Central Server until you select a tab that prompts to select a server. As soon as a server is selected, subsequent actions and settings will be applied to the selected server only.

A status bar showing the date, time and login name will also display the name of the server on which you are currently working.

When no server name appears, you are on the Central Server. Not only can you configure and monitor activity by server, you can also clone settings from one server to be applied to one or more servers, providing enhanced management fluidity in your clustered environment.

Standard and Enterprise Servers

Platform is distributed as either a Performance Management Server or an Enterprise Server. Choosing the appropriate server depends on your organization's requirements.

The following table lists the different servers and their respective functionality:

Feature	Performance Management	Enterprise	Comments
Platform			This includes the Dashboard, Server Status indicator, User and license Management.
PHP Intelligence			This includes the System Health overview, Event management and the Graph generator.
Performance			This includes performance management features: Code Acceleration, Dynamic Content Caching, File Compression, Updating Virtual Hosts and testing URLs.
Configuration			This includes the advanced configuration features for configuring your PHP directly from Platform Administration and enabling the connectivity with Studio to provide a complete development lifecycle.
Session Clustering			Enterprise Session management for cluster based environments.
Job Queues			Improve response time during interactive web sessions and utilize unused resources.
Integration			This includes Java Bridge connectivity and integration with business intelligence reporting using Actuate's BIRT reporting system.
ZDS			This includes settings and performance tests.