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HiTest Notes for MS Internet Information Server Windows NT AlphaServer 800 1–1
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Introduction
DIGITAL HiTest Suite and Its Advantages
DIGITAL HiTest Suites are guidelines for configuring a set of prequalified computer systems.
A HiTest Suite often contains all the hardware and software needed for a complete customer
solution. DIGITAL HiTest Suites can be used as a basis for configuring systems that satisfy a
wide set of customer requirements. Typically, Suites target specific markets such as Data
Warehousing or web sites that undergo medium to high levels of user traffic.
DIGITAL Product Management and Engineering select the components and design the
configurations in each HiTest Suite to ensure high system reliability, application
performance, and upgradability. A Suite's hardware and software components have been
successfully tested for interoperability.
A HiTest Suite specifies allowed ranges of hardware and software components, as well as
each component's part number, description, and revision information. These specifications
are listed in the DIGITAL HiTest Template.
The components in a HiTest Suite are organized into two groups, the DIGITAL HiTest
Foundation and the DIGITAL HiTest AppSet. The HiTest Foundation includes the hardware,
operating system, and middleware. The HiTest Foundation can be used as a base on which
any customer-desired applications can be installed. The HiTest AppSet includes the software
specific to one class of customer solutions.
Configuring a DIGITAL HiTest Suite is straightforward. Select components from the HiTest
Template to configure a DIGITAL HiTest System. Any system configured as specified in the
DIGITAL HiTest Template can be called a DIGITAL HiTest System.
The HiTest Suite is documented in the DIGITAL HiTest Notes. The HiTest Notes list the
HiTest Foundation and HiTest AppSet components. HiTest Notes also describe the testing of
the Suite and include configuration details, installation instructions, tuning parameters,
problems encountered and their solutions, and system diagrams.
Some components listed in the HiTest Foundation or AppSet may be optional. If the
minimum quantity is zero (0), then the component is optional. If the minimum quantity is
one or more, then you must order at least the minimum quantity.
The maximum quantities represent the largest group of components that were tested for
interoperability with all the other components in the Suite. Although it may be possible to
place more than the specified maximum quantity of a component on a DIGITAL system,
extensive interoperability testing was not done at that level and such a system would not be
considered a DIGITAL HiTest System.