User manual MACROMEDIA BREEZE DEPLOYMENT GUIDE

[. . . ] 8 Learning management system (LMS)/Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC) communication . 10 3 4 Contents Breeze Deployment Guide Breeze Deployment Guide is a supplement to Breeze Installation Guide. This deployment guide offers additional information about installation configurations, and firewalls and proxies, as well as guidelines for successful deployment. About Breeze technology A Macromedia Breeze installation includes components that interact to form a total solution. End users log in, enroll in courses, view reports, and complete additional basic functions using a webbased application that runs in a browser. [. . . ] In Flash Player, the meeting interface, implemented as a Flash application, opens. In Flash Player, the Flash application initiates communication with both the Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training server and the Breeze Live server to participate in the meeting. 7. The Breeze Live server waits to initiate the meeting until the designated start time. (The meeting actually is ready to begin during earlier communication between the Breeze server and the Breeze Live server. ) 8. The Breeze Live server handles most of the requests from Flash Player to display media, such as video and audio, and to conduct application sharing. 9. The Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training server interacts with Flash Player to provide meeting services, such as content display and views into the Content library. 6 Breeze Deployment Guide Common configurations The previous figure in this document illustrates a common configuration for enterprise customers. For small- to medium-sized customers with simple network configurations, installing all Breeze server components on a single server is a viable solution. As an alternative, consider using two separate servers, as the following figure shows: The Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training server is installed on one computer, and the Breeze Live server is installed on a different computer. This configuration separates users who view the content, courses, and reports from users who participate in meetings. This configuration reduces the load on a single server and can also solve issues related to networks and firewalls. Breeze Installation Guide discusses several common configurations and the following additional configurations: Clustering Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training servers Creating a cluster of servers lets you distribute end-user traffic across multiple servers. Use this configuration if you have many users and are concerned about the load on a single server, or when you want to have more than one server as a redundant system, in case a single server experiences hardware failure. Clustering Breeze Live servers You can also create a cluster of Breeze Live servers to distribute end-user traffic across multiple servers. Use this configuration if you have many users and are concerned about the load on a single server. Breeze Live has many features that produce high loads, such as support for audio, video, and sharing applications. Separating Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training databases You may install the Breeze database on a separate server from the application. Doing so lets you create more stringent backup and redundancy procedures for the database itself, separate from the application. Breeze currently supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000, which must be installed on the database server. Common configurations 7 Additional configuration guidelines The following are additional guidelines to help you set up your network and Domain Name Service (DNS): Static IP addressees Breeze does not support static IP addresses to access the server. Many websites and systems let you access their content by entering either a URL, such as www. search. com, or an IP address, such as 66. 252. 27. 402. You must set up a domain name for your Breeze server and map that to the proper IP address using either a DNS server or a . hosts file. Two server configurations and ports If you install Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training modules on one server, and Breeze Live on another, configure Breeze Live to use port 80. Although Breeze Live can use port 80 or port 1935, port 80 is better known and the system encounters fewer issues, such as with firewalls and networks. Firewalls and proxy servers Firewalls and proxy servers can cause problems for a single-server Breeze configuration. [. . . ] AICC standards define this communication strategy. Firewalls and proxy servers 9 SSL Support Breeze requires an SSL accelerator to support encrypted communication over the Internet. You can use a hardware solution, such as F5 BigIP SSL accelerator, to improve results. Macromedia recommends using hardware solutions, due to the high bandwidth requirements of streaming media. The Internet uses well-known ports for nonencrypted HTTP-based web traffic and encrypted HTTPS-based web traffic. [. . . ]