Establishing Application Availability Goals

To set effective availability goals for your applications, you need to measure the availability of the World Wide Web Publishing service (WWW service), your Web sites, and the worker processes that service your applications. These availability measurements can be calculated as a percentage by dividing the uptime of the WWW service, Web site, or worker process by the time elapsed. In addition, a good user application availability experience depends upon successful handling of correctly formed requests, which are requests that are complete and error-free.

At times, users cannot access your applications because of these common request-handling problems:

  • Correctly formed requests are sent, but they are not ...

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