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Working with Unified Brokers
• OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer — This browser-based
user interface can be used in a Windows or UNIX machine to access
configurations installed on UNIX or in Windows machines. See the
OpenEdge online help for details about using OpenEdge Management or
OpenEdge Explorer to configure Unified Broker properties files.
• Command-line utilities — A command-line tool for Windows and UNIX that
allows you to control basic activities such as starting, stopping, and querying
servers and validating property files associated with OpenEdge products. For
more information about the command-line utilities, see Chapter C,
“Command and Utility Reference.”
Note: The properties file that comes installed with your Unified Broker
product includes one sample Unified Broker and NameServer
instance for each type of Unified Broker that you can use as a guide.
If you plan to configure instances on a UNIX host, you must modify the properties
file (ubroker.properties) directly on the host for each Unified Broker instance.
Note: To perform most configuration and administrative tasks, use either the
mergeprop utility or OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer
because each offers more capabilities than does the command-line
utility.
3. Using the OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer (or the management
utility for your Unified Broker product), start up each Unified Broker instance. As it
starts, each Unified Broker instance starts additional processes or accesses
resources, depending on the product and its configuration.
4. A client can now make a Unified Broker connection request after you verify that it
knows:
• The correct network location of the NameServer to access
• The Application Service name required to connect to the broker that the client
needs
At any time after this step, you can also use any of the appropriate management
utilities (mergeprop, OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer, or
command-line) to shut down or query the status of any running Unified Broker
instance.
5. When you shut down an AdminServer process at any time and if you have not
already shut the Unified Broker instance that it controls, the instance shuts down
automatically when you shut down the AdminServer.
During Unified Broker operation, in addition to checking NameServer and Unified
Broker status using the OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer and utilities,
you can also review log files being generated by the NameServer and Application
Server instance.
The properties file that comes installed with your Unified Broker product includes one
sample Unified Broker and NameServer instance for each type of Unified Broker. This
can be used as a guide.
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