Configuring Platform

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Platform is an out-of-the-box fully functioning product. This includes basic default settings for monitoring events and code acceleration. At this stage (immediately after installation) Platform already generates events and improves code generation. However, to benefit from Full-Power Cluster Management, Development integration with Studio, Audit Trails, and much more, it is necessary to tune Platform’s performance settings to suit your individual work environment.

In this section, basic configuration tasks are listed in chronological order beginning from initial configuration tasks to configurations that may rely on other settings.

The initial configuration actions are:

• Cluster Management - Add the servers that you want Platform to control. Each server should be added and then grouped to create a cluster environment to be treated as a single entity in terms of event collection.

• Configuring Event Triggers - customize the Event Triggers to suit your working environment. The Platform installation comes ready with default configurations. However, it is recommended that a person with an understanding of the environment's settings and performance standards, configure Event Triggers accordingly.

• Configure Event Actions - Once Event Triggers are configured, determine the actions that can be applied to Events for using PHP Intelligence to send event information by e-mail or to a URL.

• Performance - Adjust performance requirements as a way to benefit from Platform's advanced performance features.

• Configure Studio / Tunneling - Platform’s tight integration with Studio provides an efficient means for improving the development lifecycle. Environments that contain security precautions such as Firewalls and NAT can set up Platform to provide a secure means for obtaining integration with Studio without compromising an organization's security measures.

• Configuring PHP Settings - Configure your PHP and Zend products directly from Platform.

• Clone Wizard - Once all initial settings have been configured, the Clone Settings feature can be used to apply settings to other nodes in one single step.

• User Management - Granting different levels of permissions to different users provides a means for controlling actions performed in the environment and for enforcing work procedures. This is the last step to customizing Platform to your working environment.

• License Management - Manage licenses for the Central Server and all nodes belonging to the cluster.

In addition, there are two checklists which summarize the actions that need to be performed in order to carry out certain tasks:

1. Configuration Checklist - Chronologically lists all the initial configuration tasks that should be done to customize Zend Platform to suit your requirements. This gives you more details on the initial configuration options.

2. Performance Lifecycle Checklist - Lists the different stages of implementing the Performance Lifecycle for streamlining Production and Development environments.