Any application, once in production, requires constant monitoring and maintenance to work efficiently. Alfresco as an application can be easily monitored using the JMX interface. This interface is very handy for the system administrator to control and configure applications at run-time without restarting the server. We will learn about JMX configuration and how to use it in detail in this chapter. All applications need some tuning to work as per the requirements. Various components of Alfresco such as the database, thread connection, cache, and logger, need to be configured as per the application.
In this chapter we will look in detail at the following topics:
Understanding JMX in Alfresco
Learning about server maintenance and best practices for it
Understanding audits
Various ways to tune the Alfresco application