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Chapter 10: Configuration
Overview of OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer
OpenEdge Explorer is a common administrative architecture for installed OpenEdge
server products, as described in the following sections:
• Introduction
• OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer elements and descriptions
• Additional OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer considerations
Introduction
OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer is a system administration utility that
provides a consistent interface in which specific OpenEdge products can be managed.
OpenEdge Explorer supports common administrative tasks and activities you can use
to start and stop processes, and to manage, configure, and validate properties for
specific OpenEdge products. The AdminServer process enables supported products to
address their specific requirements. The AdminServer also supports various
management utilities to provide similar configuration and management functions for all
of these products. For a complete list of products that use the AdminServer, see the
“OpenEdge products supported by the AdminServer” section on page 232.
Some OpenEdge products administered through and managed by OpenEdge
Management or OpenEdge Explorer are designed to help manage an application’s
resources. For example, these products are based on receiving and sending requests
through brokers. Brokers poll for available resources (that is, client and agents),
attempting to fulfill these requests. OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer
facilitates the common administrative tasks and configuration activities that are
fundamental to the technology these broker-based products use.
OpenEdge products that support broker functionality include:
• Unified Brokers — WebSpeed, AppServer, DataServer for MS SQL Server,
Oracle DataServer, and ODBC DataServer
• Adapters — AppServer Internet Adapter, Web Services Adapter, and OpenEdge
Adapter for SonicMQ
• Messengers — CGIIP, WSASP, WSISA, and WSNSA
Data for each Unified Broker product is stored in a common text file called
ubroker.properties file. The file stores the property and configuration information for
each Unified Broker. OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer, and tools like the
mergeprop utility, help you use to manage the contents of these files.
This chapter focuses on the Unified Brokers and how OpenEdge Management or
OpenEdge Explorer supports them to manage an application’s resources and make
these resources available to clients.
Note: The OpenEdge database is another key product that is part of OpenEdge
Management or OpenEdge Explorer. In contrast to the Unified Brokers and
their relationship to the ubroker.properties file, all configuration changes
made to any database administered through the AdminServer are stored in the
Configuration Manager properties (conmgr.properties) file. For information
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