Editing and validating the properties file

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AppServer and Internet Adapter Administration : Configuring and Managing the AppServer : Configuring AppServer components : Editing the properties file : Editing and validating the properties file

To edit the properties file directly, use a text editor such as vi or Notepad. Once you edit the properties file, use the following utilities to validate the AppServer configuration information in the file:

NSCONFIG utility — To validate NameServer configurations. For more information on this utility, see OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration.

ASCONFIG utility — To validate AppServer configurations. This section describes how to use this utility.

If the file contains any other OpenEdge server configurations (such as for WebSpeed or the OpenEdge Adapter for SonicMQ), run the configuration validation utilities for those Unified Broker products to ensure that these configurations are still valid. For more information, see OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration.

Note: If you always use OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer, you will never have to use these utilities.

The ASCONFIG utility displays the property settings associated with an AppServer configuration, and checks that the syntax and values are valid. You must run the ASCONFIG utility locally on the machine on which the AppServer is running. The utility does not run across the network.

This is the syntax used to invoke the ASCONFIG utility:

Table 3. Syntax
asconfig [ [[ -name AppServer-name] [ -propfile path-to-properties-file ] [ -validate ] ]\| -help ]

For more information on the ASCONFIG utility, see ASCONFIG and Summary of management tasks.

The following command validates the syntax and views the configurations of all AppServer instances defined within the test.properties file located in the current working directory:

asconfig -propfile test.properties -validate