Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. About the book: Blueprint for building an e-business application for BladeCenter -- 1.1 Building an e-business infrastructure -- 1.1.1 Materials -- 1.1.2 Objectives -- 1.2 IBM eServer™ BladeCenter -- 1.3 FAStT SAN storage -- 1.4 BladeCenter business value -- 1.5 Linux business value -- 1.6 Open source business value -- 1.7 Other references -- Chapter 2. Architecture: Solution overview -- 2.1 Open source e-business infrastructure a modular approach -- 2.2 All construction projects start with a pattern -- 2.2.1 Industry standard e-business pattern: A three-tier infrastructure -- 2.3 Blade servers -- 2.3.1 The next evolutionary step in computing: Blade-based computing -- 2.3.2 IBM eServer BladeCenter -- 2.3.3 BladeCenter value -- 2.3.4 When BladeCenter is not the right platform -- 2.4 SAN storage -- 2.5 Software stack -- 2.5.1 High-level architecture -- 2.5.2 Open source e-business software components -- 2.5.3 Functional aspects -- 2.5.4 Non-functional requirements -- 2.5.5 Non-functional aspects -- 2.5.6 Detailed software stack -- Chapter 3. Foundation -- 3.1 Hardware -- 3.1.1 Single CD-ROM, floppy drive, keyboard, video, and mouse -- 3.2 Installing operating system instances -- 3.2.1 PXE -- 3.2.2 Red Hat Kickstart -- 3.2.3 Sample Kickstart configuration for BladeCenter -- Chapter 4. Plumbing: Network infrastructure -- 4.1 DHCP -- 4.1.1 Background -- 4.1.2 Building in fault tolerance -- 4.1.3 Security concerns -- 4.1.4 Conclusion -- 4.2 DNS -- 4.2.1 History -- 4.2.2 Building a highly available DNS -- 4.2.3 Conclusion -- 4.3 LDAP -- 4.3.1 LDAP servers -- 4.3.2 LDAP concepts -- 4.3.3 Working with OpenLDAP -- 4.3.4 gq: A graphical LDAP browser.

4.3.5 Server authentication with LDAP -- 4.3.6 Apache authentication with LDAP -- Chapter 5. Wiring: File services with Samba and NFS -- 5.1 Working with Samba -- 5.1.1 Required Samba packages -- 5.1.2 Configuring Samba as a basic file server -- 5.1.3 Adding Samba users -- 5.1.4 Samba passwords -- 5.1.5 Connecting to the Samba server using smbclient -- 5.1.6 Connecting to the Samba server using smbmount -- 5.1.7 Connecting to the Samba server from a Windows machine -- 5.1.8 Automatically mounting a Samba directory at boot time -- 5.1.9 Sharing additional directories -- 5.1.10 For more information on Samba -- 5.2 Working with NFS -- 5.2.1 Required NFS packages -- 5.2.2 Configuring NFS -- Chapter 6. Doorways: Web serving and messaging -- 6.1 Web serving -- 6.1.1 The Apache Web server -- 6.1.2 Installing Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0 -- 6.1.3 Installing Apache HTTP Server and the SSL module -- 6.1.4 Installing the Perl module -- 6.1.5 Installing the PHP module -- 6.1.6 Configuring and testing Apache -- 6.1.7 Load balancing and Linux Virtual Server (LVS) -- 6.1.8 Installing the Web cluster -- 6.1.9 Configuring the Web cluster -- 6.2 E-mail -- 6.2.1 How Internet e-mail systems fit together -- 6.2.2 Building an e-mail server with Sendmail and UW-IMAP -- 6.2.3 Replacing Sendmail with Postfix -- 6.2.4 Replacing UW-IMAP with Courier -- 6.2.5 Virtual users and domains with Courier and Postfix -- 6.2.6 Virtual mail servers with Postfix, OpenLDAP, and Courier -- 6.2.7 Dealing with spam and viruses -- 6.2.8 Sendmail clusters on Linux -- 6.3 Instant messaging -- 6.3.1 Instant messaging's value to modern companies -- 6.3.2 Jabber -- 6.3.3 Running a Jabber server -- 6.3.4 Using Jabber clients -- 6.3.5 Considerations for using jabberd for an intranet -- 6.3.6 Extending Jabber -- Chapter 7. Living spaces: Applications and portal server.

7.1 Web applications -- 7.1.1 Servlets -- 7.1.2 JavaBeans -- 7.1.3 JavaServer Pages -- 7.1.4 Containers -- 7.2 Tomcat -- 7.2.1 A brief history of Tomcat -- 7.2.2 Diving into Tomcat -- 7.2.3 Java Web applications -- 7.2.4 A Quick example: Jetspeed -- 7.2.5 The deployment descriptor: web.xml -- 7.2.6 Understanding Tomcat's configuration file -- 7.2.7 Using the Tomcat Web Application Manager -- 7.2.8 SSL with Tomcat -- 7.2.9 Integrating Tomcat and Apache -- 7.3 Portals -- 7.3.1 Jetspeed -- Chapter 8. Cabinetry: Open source databases -- 8.1 PostgreSQL, MySQL, and others -- 8.1.1 PostgreSQL -- 8.1.2 MySQL -- 8.1.3 PostgreSQL versus MySQL -- 8.1.4 Other open source databases -- 8.2 Working with MySQL -- 8.2.1 Required MySQL RPM packages -- 8.2.2 Starting MySQL the first time -- 8.2.3 Securing MySQL -- 8.3 MySQL replication -- 8.3.1 Uses of replication -- 8.3.2 Setting up replication -- 8.4 Using MySQL replication -- 8.4.1 Load balancing MySQL queries with a workload manager -- 8.4.2 Application logic versus cluster logic -- 8.4.3 Example: Using application logic -- 8.4.4 Horizontal scaling and MySQL replication -- 8.4.5 High availability -- 8.5 What if the master fails? -- 8.5.1 Setting up a mutual master-slave relationship -- 8.5.2 Chaining servers -- 8.5.3 How far do we go? -- Chapter 9. Security -- 9.1 Good practices -- 9.2 OpenSSH -- 9.3 Segregate networks -- 9.4 IPChains -- 9.4.1 Creating rules -- Chapter 10. Household maintenance: System management and application development -- 10.1 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) -- 10.1.1 Configuring snmpd -- 10.1.2 Using snmp utilities -- 10.2 MRTG -- 10.2.1 Installing MRTG -- 10.3 Mon -- 10.3.1 Installing Mon -- 10.3.2 Configuring Mon -- 10.4 Eclipse -- 10.4.1 Getting started with Eclipse -- 10.4.2 Working with Eclipse -- 10.4.3 Tomcat plug-in for Eclipse -- 10.4.4 For more information.

Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.