Performance Tuning of IIS 5.0

 

1.   IIS 5.0 is a service provided in Windows 2000 to facilitate the publishing of information on either the Internet or an intranet.

2.   The process of identifying and fixing trouble areas in a server should be continuous in nature.

3.   Trouble areas can arise from three categories of components:

·        Hardware

·        Web applications

·        The network

4.   The performance of a server or a site can be measured by comparing the actual value of related performance counters with their ideal values.

5.   The tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a server or a site are:

• System Monitor
• Event Viewer
• Task Manager
• Network Monitor

6.   Disk Management is a graphical tool provided by Windows 2000 to perform tasks, such as creating, extending, or mirroring a volume.

7.   ISAPI is a set of the Windows keywords that enable you to write a Web server application.

8.   An ISAPI filter is a special ISAPI DLL that responds to events during the processing of web requests.

9.   Log files are the files that record specific network event-related entries.

10. The log file formats supported by IIS are:

·        W3C Extended Log File Format

·        Microsoft IIS Log Format

·        NCSA Common Log File Format

11. Some of the common problems in IIS 5.0 are:

·        Access violation errors by inetinfo.exe

·        HTTP errors

12. The IIS security wizards include:

·        The Web Server Certificate Wizard

·        The CTL Wizard

·        The Permissions Wizard

13. The concept of security in IIS 5.0 can be explained with reference to the following processes:

·        Authentication

·        Access control

·        Encryption

·        Certificates

·        Auditing

14. A security tool that can be used with IIS is the Microsoft Lockdown tool. The Lockdown tool turns off the features that are unnecessary for the functioning of the server.