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Netscape Enterprise Server
34 Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator’s Guide
providing high performance, reliability, scalability, and manageability,
Enterprise Server solves the business-critical needs of your web site, regardless
of the size of your enterprise.
This section includes the following topics:
• Enterprise Server Features
• Administering and Managing Enterprise Servers
Enterprise Server Features
Enterprise Server is primarily designed to provide access to your business
HTML files. In addition, it offers the following features:
• Web publishing —End users can organize and publish their documents
from their desktops with a web publishing interface. They can organize
documents by type to customize presentation for different purposes, and
use text search to manage document content via the Netscape Content
Management (CM) feature. CM is an NSAPI plug-in that allows you to
manage files on a remote server, with drag and drop like capabilities (via a
web publishing applet) and index document content in an intelligent way
for easier content searching.
• Enterprise-wide manageability —Including delegated administration,
cluster management, and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
support. LDAP integration with Netscape Directory Server enables you to
store users and groups in a centralized directory. In addition, you can
monitor your server in real-time by using the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP). SNMP is a protocol used to exchange data about network
activity.
Note that in order to add users and groups to Enterprise Server, you must
have a directory server installed, such as Netscape Directory Server. If you
need to create, locate, or manage records for users and groups on any other
servers within your network, you should use Netscape Console with your
Directory Server. For more information, see
Managing Servers with Netscape
Console .
• Security —Users can establish encrypted and authenticated transactions
between clients and the server through the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0
protocol. In addition, Enterprise Server employs the following security-