Preface

This guide provides an overview of Oracle Traffic Director, and describes how to create, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Oracle Traffic Director instances.

Audience

This guide is intended for users who are responsible for installing, configuring, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting web-tier components such as web servers, reverse proxy servers, and load balancers.

It is assumed that readers of this guide are familiar with the following:

• Using web browsers

• Working in a terminal window

• Executing operating system commands on UNIX-like platforms

In addition, a basic understanding HTTP and SSL/TSL protocols is desirable, though not mandatory.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents, which are available on the Oracle

Technology Network:

• Oracle Traffic Director Release Notes

• Oracle Traffic Director Installation Guide

• Oracle Traffic Director Command-Line Reference

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• Oracle Traffic Director Configuration Files Reference

• Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder User's Guide

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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Documentation

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