Zend Server User Guide > Concepts

Concepts

This section specifies and provides information on the various Zend Server for IBMi features and concepts. See the Tasks section to understand how to work with these concepts. The following table lists the various concepts and displays related abstracts:

Feature/Concept

Abstract

Audit Trail

A tool for tracking UI/API user activity.

Architecture

Zend Server is based on a modern architectural model that is more robust and scalable in nature that allows you to support much larger clusters.

CLI Tools

CLI Tools is a utility that allows easy automation for Zend Server on Mac or Linux.

Code Tracing

Enables real-time execution trace recording of PHP requests.

Continuous Delivery

Zend Server provides the platform that enables Continuous Delivery, facilitating automation and collaboration capabilities throughout the application delivery cycle.

Data Cache

Caches application data of various data types using PHP APIs.

Debugger

Enables remote debugging of PHP scripts with Zend Studio.

Deployment

Allows packaging, deployment, and updating of a PHP applications.

Directives

The Zend Server for IBMi Directives are used to configure the behavior of the PHP Extensions loaded in your environment.

Events

A collection of runtime-related information collected by the Zend Server for IBMi Monitor component.

Extensions

PHP extensions are sets of instructions that add functionality to your PHP.

FastCGI

FastCGI is an open standard extending the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) standard supported by many common web servers today.

Guard Loader

Loads and runs PHP scripts that are encoded with Zend Guard.

Import/Export

A backup/reset option to import and export PHP and system settings

Java Bridge

Enables integration of Java code in PHP applications

Job Queue

Provides offline asynchronous processing of tasks and activities

Libraries

A mechanism to install libraries used for running applications in your production environment.

Logs

A means for developers to view system log information.

Monitoring

Provides an alerting mechanism for a variety of types of PHP script problems.

Monitoring Rules

Configurable rules that trigger monitoring events.

Notification Center

A notification system for viewing live alerts in your working environment.

OPcache

Provides faster PHP execution through opcode caching and optimization (PHP 5.5 only).

Optimizer+

Provides faster PHP execution through opcode caching and optimization.

Page Cache

Improves application performance by conditionally caching PHP scripts output.

Resource Control

Built-in control mechanism for limiting the amount of space used by Zend components.

Server Restart

Zend Server has various restart options designed to provide maximum performance and minimum server downtime.

Statistics

Keeps track of a variety of server and application performance metrics.

User Management

Allows you to control and manage Zend Server users.

Zend Framework

A high quality, open source framework for developing Web applications and Web services using PHP.

Zend Studio Integration

Integrating Zend Studio with Zend Server allows you to benefit both from Zend Studio's debugging and profiling functionality and from Zend Server's monitoring capabilities.

 

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Reference

   
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