AppLogic 2.4.x User Documentation

Welcome to the home of the AppLogic 2.4.x user documentation. This site provides up-to-date documentation and other resources for the AppLogic Grid Operating System.

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CONTENTS

• Overview
  • Tour of AppLogic
  • Concepts

• Grid Users Guide
  • Quick Start
  • Operations
  • Application Development
  • Troubleshooting

• Reference Manual
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Command Line Shell
  • Sample Applications
  • Appliance Catalog
  • Creating New Appliance Distros
  • Appliance OS Support Limitations

• Advanced Topics

• Release Notes

Overview

Tour of AppLogic

• What is AppLogic?
• Support for Utility Computing
• Who should consider using AppLogic (and why)
• What can you do with AppLogic?
• Key Features
• Major Components
  • User Interface
  • Runtime System
• Glossary

Concepts

• Architecture
• System Services
• Disposable Infrastructure
• Applications
• How AppLogic works
• The AppLogic application model

Grid Users Guide

Quick Start

• Accessing the grid
• Starting your first application on the grid
• Command Line Shell
• Graphical User Interface
  • System Dashboard
  • Application Provisioning Wizard
  • Application Migration Wizard
  • Application Configurator
  • Infrastructure Editor
  • Monitor
  • Volume Browser
  • ADL Descriptor Viewer / Editor
  • Appliance Consoles
    • SSH Console
    • Text Boot Console
    • Graphical Console

• AppLogic release notes (latest version)
  • AppLogic release notes archive

Operations

• Provisioning an application
• Configuring an application
• Starting an application
• Retrieving information about your application
• Accessing your application
• Restarting your application
• Copying an application
• Decomissioning an application instance
• Migrating an application between grids
• Exporting and Importing Applications

Application Development

• Workflow for building web applications
• Creating Appliances
• Creating applications on standard infrastructure
• Creating applications on custom infrastructure

Troubleshooting

• Appliance Start
• Application Start
• Inaccessible Application
• Inaccessible Volume
• Inaccessible Grid
• GUI Slowdown

Reference Manual

• Graphical User Interface
  • System Dashboard
  • Application Configurator
  • Infrastructure Editor
  • Application Provisioning Wizard
  • Application Migration Wizard
  • Monitor
  • Volume Browser
  • ADL Descriptor Viewer / Editor
  • Appliance Consoles
    • SSH Console
    • Text Boot Console
    • Graphical Console

• Command Line Shell

• Sample Applications
  • TWiki structured wiki collaboration platform
  • SugarCRM customer relationship management system
  • Virtual Dedicated Server applications
  • Lamp application
  • Scalable Lamp application
  • Scalable Lamp Cluster

• Appliance Catalog
  • Application Server Appliances
  • Web Server Appliances
  • Database Appliances
  • Miscellaneous Appliances
  • Switch Appliances
  • Gateway Appliances
  • Monitoring Appliances
  • Generic Appliances
• Filer Catalog
• Dynamic Catalog

• Future Appliances

• Creating new appliance distros
  • iso2class: Appliance Distro Creation Utility
  • Windows Appliance Installation Reference
  • Important Windows Appliance Notes
  • hvm2pv: Hardware Emulation to Paravirtualized appliance conversion utility
  • wincfg: Windows Configuration Utility
  • Accessing Files on the Grid Controller from within an Appliance

• Appliance OS Support Limitations

Advanced Topics

• Scripting CLI commands
• Configuration Markup Syntax
• Field engineering codes
• Dashboard notification messages
• Appliance Counters
  • List of standard appliance counters
  • Custom counters
  • Counter Collection Web Service API
• Appliance Kit User Manual (APK)
• The ADL Language

Support Links

Self-help Resources

• http://doc.3tera.net -- AppLogic product documentation
• http://support.3tera.net -- AppLogic discussion and support forum
• http://www.3tera.com/grid_university.html -- Grid University: free interactive and recorded training sessions

These links are also accessible through the Support Tab of your grid dashboard.

3Tera Partner Resources

3Tera partners and direct licensees can also obtain contract-based support and additional information resources.

On-line

• http://wiki.3tera.net -- 3Tera partners wiki
• http://helpdesk.3tera.net -- 3Tera partners support portal
• http://bugs.3tera.net -- AppLogic change tracking system

Live Support

• e-mai: support@3tera.com
• phone: (888) 492-4738
• fax: (949) 305-0160, ATTN: Technical Support

Support hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 9:00pm Pacific Time (GMT-0800). We may be able to respond outside these hours. Please mark urgent messages as such.

When calling the emergency phone support, please e-mail to support first -- this will ensure that all support engineers will have access to your information. Keep in mind that the phone support rings several engineers in sequence; don't hang up while it is ringing.

Interactive Sessions

We can set up interactive help sessions using WebEx. To reach our WebEx site, go to http://3tera.webex.com/. You should also receive from us a meeting number to set up a successful session.

We have verified access with the following browsers/OS combinations:

• Windows XP: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
• Linux: Mozilla Firefox with Java plug-in

WebEx sessions require Java or ActiveX to work. For more information on system requirements and to test whether your browser can access WebEx, go to http://developers.webex.com/api/jointest/index.php.