Application pool and Worker process

What is Application Pool in IIS ? Before Giving the Definition : you can say like this, Concept of Application pool has from IIS 6.0 . Application pools are used to separate sets of IIS worker processes that share the same configuration and application boundaries. Application pools used to isolate our web application for better security, reliability, and availability and performance and keep running with out impacting each other . The worker process serves as the process boundary that separates each application pool so that when one worker process or application is having an issue or recycles, other applications or worker processes are not affected. One Application Pool can have multiple worker process Also. Main Point to Remember: 1. Isolation of Different Web Application 2. Individual worker process for different web application 3. More reliably web application 4. Better Performance What is the purpose of IIS application pools? We use application pools for isolation purpose. Every application within an application pool used the same worker process. Each worker process operates as a separate instance of the worker process executable, W3wp.exe, the worker process that services one application pool is separated from the worker process that services another. In simplest words we use applicaiton pools for ISOLATION purpose. What is the Name of Default Application Pool in IIS ? Though we can create new application pool IIS with different settings, but IIS having its own default application pool named : DefaultAppPool What are the different types of Identity available in IIS 6.0 ? IIS having three different Identity. 1. Local System 2. Local Services 3. NetworkServices

Name of default Identity of IIS6.0 Default Identity of IIS 6.0 is NetworkServices . Which is having very minimum rights on your system. The user can only have the read access of the site. What is Recycling of Application Pool ? recycling Application pool means recycle the Worker process (w3wp.exe ) and the memory used for the web application. There are two types of recycling related with Application pool 1. Recycling Worker Process - Predefined Settings 2. Recycling Worker Process - Based on Memory What is web garden ? By default Each Application Pool runs with a Single Worker Process (W3Wp.exe). We can assign multiple Worker Process With a Single Application Pool. An Application Pool with multiple Worker process called Web Gardens. Each Worker Process Should have there own Thread and Own Memory space. Generally its not recommended to use InProc Session mode while we are using Web Garden. When we go for webgarden? What is the use?

Where session data stores in case of "In-Proc" Session mode ? Session data store inside process memory of worker process [ w3wp.exe ] . How we can create an web garden ? For creating web graden we need to go to Application Pool, then Right Click on Application Pool > Properties > Goto Performance Tab In Web Garden Section, increase the number of worker process. By default it is 1.

How we can debug a web application which is hosted on IIS ? We can easily debug any web application that are hosted on IIS by using Attaching of Worker Process. From Visual Studio IDE > Tools > Attach To Process Select the particular Process, then start debugging. For more information Read this article : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ProcessAttache.aspx What is the use of Enable Pinging Properties for Application Pool ? IIS should periodically monitor the health of a worker process [ Idle or not , Time for recycle or not, All Worker process are running properly or not ] . Pining means, Activation Process monitor Worker process performance, health, idle time etc. By default it sets to 30s . Does One Web Application can have multiple Application Pool ? No. Every Web Application should have one Application Pool. Bydefault it is "DefaultAppPool ". How we can save an Application Pool Settings? Application Pool Settings can be save as "XML" Format. Right Click on Application Pool > All Task > Save Configuration to a File . This will save all the settings of Application Pool as an XML file.We can make it password protected also. How can we get the list of worker process running in IIS along with the Application pool name ? By running iisapp.vbs script from command Prompt. Below are the steps : 1. Start > Run > Cmd 2. Go To Windows > System32 3. Run cscript iisapp.vbs

If there are multiple worker process running on IIS, then how can you attach a particular worker process for application? Well, if there are multiple worker process running in IIS, it means I have to know the name of my application pool. Then I can run cscript iisapi.vbs script to find out the process ID and Application Pool name. Based on the process Id for particular application I have to attach the process from Visual studio IDE. What are the different types of application pool available in IIS 7.0? IIS 7.0 having two types of application pool. 1. DefaultAppPool (Integrated) 2. ClassicAppPool

Which is not an Identity of Application Pool? NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer. Which application pool having maximum privilege on the server? NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer.

What is name of default application pool in IIS? NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer.

What are the worker process for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0? For IIS 5.1 > aspnet_wp.exe For IIS 6.0 > w3wp.exe

What is Web Farm ? what is the use? This is one of the most imp question in IIS. And along with that interviewer can as what is the different between Web farm and Web Garden? When we hosted our web Application on multiple web server under a load balancer call the Web Farm. This is generally used for heavy load web application where there are many user requests at a time. So When Web Application is hosted on Different IIS Server over a load balancer, Load balancer is responsible for distribute the load on different server. Please have a look into this : http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article713-difference-between-web-farm-and-web-garden.aspx

What is the default Identity of an Application Pool? NetworkServices How we can set the Idle Time out of an worker process ? We can set the Idle time out for an worker process from Application Pool Properties. In Performance Tab of Application pool, we can set the Idle Time out of the worker process. This means worker process will shut down after that given time period if it stay idle. And will again wake up again if a new request comes from HTTP.SYS. Can we create one Application Pool From Another Application Pool? Yes. We can. While creating Application Pool from IIS, there should have two options available first one is use default settings for new application pool and another is use existing application pool as template. We can select the second one and from the drop down listed below we can select any on the Application Pool as Template,. What are the main components of SVCHost.exe ? Main components for SVCHost.exe are WWW Publishing Service (W3SVC) and Windows Activation Porcess (WAP).

W3SVC is the mediator of HTTP.SYS and Windows Activation Process. Windows Activation Process maintain the worker processes. How to recycle application pool from the command prompt in IIS7? 1. Use appcmd.exe to recycle the application pool from the command prompt. 2. appcmd.exe is the command line tool for IIS7, you will find this tool at following location : %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd 3. To recycle your application pool use the following command: appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:<application pool name> What are the Different steps to be followed to get SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for our Web Application? . Initially we have to generate a CSR (certificate sing-in request) from our IIS. . Now we have to request a certificate from the certificate authority (CA) . This CA is an entity which issues Digital Certificates. . After receiving the certificate we have to install that particular certificate on our Web Server using IIS . We have to use Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) when accessing secure pages in our application. By this way we could make our web page as SSL protected. !!! what is Windows Process Activation Service ? The Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) provides process activation, resource management and health management services for message-activated applications. It manages application pool configuration and the creation and lifetime of worker processes for HTTP and other protocols (net.tcp,net.pipe,net.msmq) Details : http://techprudent.com/the-windows-process-activation-service/ and MSDN : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc735229%28WS.10%29.aspx IIS services fail if WAS fails You may receive "Windows could not start the Windows Process Activation Service - Error 6801: Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shut down due to an error" error message and IIS services fail to start. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall the IIS and WAS

roles/features with no luck. The following command (assumes that the system drive is c:) helped: fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amb/archive/2011/06/21/iis-service-startup-problem-error-6801-transaction-supportwithin-the-specified-resource-manager-is-not-started-or-was-shut-down-due-to-an-error.aspx