4. Setting Up and Managing the Application Object Server
by Simon Buxton
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Administration Cookbook
- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Administration Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Administration Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Managing Users in AX 2012
- Introduction
- Creating a new Dynamics AX user
- Creating a Claims (flexible authentication) user
- Importing users from the Active Directory
- Understanding the user request workflow
- Defining user relations and basic roles in human resources
- Assigning roles to users
- Assigning profiles to users
- Managing users by PowerShell commands
- User groups, what happened?
- 2. Working with Licensing in AX 2012
- 3. Model Management
- 4. Setting Up and Managing the Application Object Server
- 5. System Monitoring
- 6. Setting Up and Managing E-mails and Batch Processing
- 7. Setting Up and Managing Alerts
- 8. Setting Up and Managing Legal Entities and Partitions
- 9. Setting Up and Managing Workflow
- 10. Setting Up and Managing Security
- Introduction
- Manually assigning users to roles
- Dynamically assigning users to roles
- Creating a model for security
- Creating a new security role
- Adding duties and privileges to a role
- Overriding role permissions
- Setting up record-level security
- Maintaining date-effective policies
- Segregation of duties and mitigating risk
- 11. Setting Up and Managing Reports and BI
- 12. Setting Up and Managing the Application Integration Framework
- 13. General Performance-related Tasks
- Introduction
- Cleaning up the general ledger data
- Cleaning up the procurement and sourcing data
- Cleaning up the sales and marketing data
- Cleaning up the inventory and warehouse management data
- Cleaning up the old calendar dates
- Cleaning up notifications
- Reindexing tables or the whole database
- Compressing the database tables
- Synchronizing the database
- Truncating a table
- Running a consistency check
- Optimizing the model store
- A. Further Reading
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Installing an additional object server
- Creating a server cluster
- Configuring an AOS instance as a batch server
- Draining users
- Taking an AOS instance offline
Dynamics AX is a three-tier architecture. Client, Application Server, and Database Server are shown as follows:
- Tier 1: This is the Client, which is usually the AX client, that communicates with the Application Object Server (AOS). Code can be run on the client tier, but should be restricted to managing the user interface such as disabling buttons.
- Tier 2: This is the Application Server that provides data and access to the business logic for the Client tier. This is a system that requires access to AX, such as the AX client, Services, Enterprise Portal, and Reports. This ensures that the business logic is followed, data validation is ensured, and application security is enforced. It also provides a limited level of high availability by clustering AOS and increasing the performance by moving the processing from the clients to the server tier.
- Tier 3: This is the Database Server tier, which is always Microsoft SQL Server, and it performs the database operations requested by the AOS. The client does not communicate with the database directly.
This architecture also improves performance and reduces the bandwidth requirements for the client. The bandwidth intensive database transactions are performed between the application and database tiers.
This chapter covers most of the administration tasks concerning the Application Object Server.
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