8.5
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Getting started with QuarkXPress Server
- The QuarkXPress Server user interface
- Server Configuration dialog box
- Server preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — EPS
- Preferences — Application — Error Reporting
- Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Modifier
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — PSD Import
- Preferences — Application — Placeholders
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Preferences — Application — Picture Effects
- Preferences — Project — General
- Preferences — Project — XML Import
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Trapping
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Style sheets
- Colors
- H&Js
- Output styles
- Font mapping
- Source setups
- Output setups
- PPML consumers
- Server XTensions Manager
- Status Monitor
- Other QuarkXPress Server menu items
- Creating URL requests
- Modifying layouts with XML
- QuarkXPress Server XTensions software
- Telegraph XTensions software
- QuarkXPress Server Monitor
- QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Understanding QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Working with QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Starting QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Request handler binding
- Configuring QuarkXPress Server instances
- Managing the cache
- Managing logs
- Controlling load balancing
- Using a proxy server
- Generating automatic e-mail messages
- Using other global settings
- Saving a server configuration
- Exporting a server configuration
- Using custom error messages
- Sending requests from a browser
- QuarkXPress Server Manager Scripting Environment
- Glossary
- Legal notices
- Index
instance might be unable to process a request in a reasonable amount of time (for example,
if the server is working on a large rendering job, or if the server computer has stopped
functioning). If you specify a certain period of time as the request timeout interval,
QuarkXPress Server Manager will wait for the response until that period of time elapses,
and then send the request to a different QuarkXPress Server instance. This ensures that a
request does not get "lost" if its assigned QuarkXPress Server instance does not become
available promptly.
For information about setting a request timeout interval, see "Using other global settings."
If a client request fails despite being sent to multiple QuarkXPress Server instances,
QuarkXPress Server sends the end user a customizable error message or exception so that
the end user can appropriately handle the failure. A QuarkXPress Server Manager server
can also automatically send e-mail to an administrator in the event of a problem; for more
information, see "Generating automatic e-mail messages."
Determining QuarkXPress Server instance availability
QuarkXPress Server Manager uses two methods to determine the availability of a
QuarkXPress Server instance: ping and ping document.
Ping
QuarkXPress Server Manager periodically sends a ping request to all of its QuarkXPress Server
instances to determine whether they are available. Ping requests use the following format:
http://[Server]:[Port]/getprocessid
Ping document
QuarkXPress Server Manager periodically sends a render request to all of
its QuarkXPress Server instances to determine whether they can render a document. Ping
document requests use the following format:
http://[Server]:[Port]/[PingDocumentName.qxp]
You can specify the document to be used for this render request. To avoid long ping
document rendering times, use a simple document.
You can specify the interval between pings and ping documents in the Other Settings
pane in the Global Settings pane of the QuarkXPress Server Manager window (see "Using
other global settings").
Logging
QuarkXPress Server Manager logs all interactions with QuarkXPress Server instances.
QuarkXPress Server Manager log files contain the following information:
• Render requests
• QuarkXPress Server responses
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