User guide

Chapter 2. Overview
2.1. What is provided?
Membership in the JBoss Cloud Access program enables you to access private Amazon Machine
Images (AMIs) created by Red Hat. T hese AMIs have your choice of JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 5.1.x or JBoss Ent erprise Web Server 1.0.x pre-installed and are fully supported by Red
Hat.
For ongoing management and monitoring of the platform, a JBoss Operat ions Network (JON) 3.0.x
agent is pre-installed. Product updates are managed using RPMs, enabling you to update via Red Hat
Update Infrastruct ure.
Each of the Red Hat AMIs are only a starting point, requiring further configuration to the requirements of
your application. T his guide assumes knowledge of how to configure the JBoss products, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Amazon EC2. Refer to the Red Hat Documentation library and the Amazon EC2
Getting Started Guide.
2.2. Deployment process
Follow this procedure to deploy your application:
Procedure 2.1. Deployment
1. Identify a suitable Red Hat AMI.
2. Configure instance and deploy application.
3. Confirm that the platform is working as expected.
4. Establish monitoring with JBoss Operations Network (JON).
This guide is structured to match this process, with the aim of getting your application deployed quickly
and easily. It is not possible to document every deployment scenario so this guide provides example
configurations, which should be modified to suit your environment.
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