System and Server Administration Preface

This preface provides an overview of the contents discussed in the System and Server Administration PeopleBook.

System and Server Administration

This book includes several chapters relating to administration tools for the PeopleSoft application server, and web servers including Oracle Application Server, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. It also contains information about building and maintaining search indexes, database level auditing, and PeopleTools utilities.

Note. PeopleSoft supports a number of versions of UNIX and Linux in addition to Microsoft Windows. Throughout this book, there are references to operating system configuration requirements. Where necessary, this book refers to specific operating systems by name (for example, Solaris, HP/UX, Linux, etc.); however, for simplicity the word UNIX is used to refer to all UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux.

About These PeopleBooks

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Related documentation, common page elements, and typographical conventions for PeopleBooks.
Information about using PeopleBooks and managing the PeopleBooks Library.
Information on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country and currency codes used within PeopleBooks.
A glossary of useful PeopleSoft terms that are used in PeopleBooks.