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AppServer and Internet Adapter Administration : Configuring and Managing the AppServer : Summary of management tasks
 

Summary of management tasks

This section summarizes the basic management tasks that are available to maintain existing AppServer configurations. They are described with reference to the command-line utilities, but you can also accomplish most of these tasks, except running the AdminServer, using OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer.
The following table describes the utilities that OpenEdge provides to help configure and manage an AppServer installation, listed generally in order by task.
Table 6. AppServer utilities
Utility
Execution location
Description
ASBMAN
Local or remote to the AppServer installation
Starts, stops, adds AppServer agents, trims AppServer agents, and queries status for an AppServer instance and its AppServer agent.
ASCONFIG
Local to the AppServer installation files
Validates the syntax of AppServer configurations in the ubroker.properties file. (Never needed if you always use OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer.)
NSCONFIG
Local to the AppServer installation files
Validates the syntax of NameServer configurations in the ubroker.properties file. (Never needed if you always use OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer.)
NSMAN
Local or remote to the NameServer machine
Starts, stops, and queries status for a NameServer.
PROADSV
Local to the AppServer installation
Starts, stops, and queries status for the AdminServer on UNIX. In Windows, you start the AdminService as a Windows service using the Services applet in the Control Panel.
For more information on the NameServer and NSMAN utility, and the AdminServer and PROADSV utility, see NSMAN, PROADSV, and OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration.
The Table 7 lists sample command-line utility syntax used to do the following:
*Start and stop the AdminServer in Windows
*Start, query, and stop the AdminServer on UNIX
*Verify the configuration of, start, query, and stop a NameServer instance
*Verify the configuration of, start, query, add AppServer agents to, trim AppServer agents from, and stop an AppServer instance
Table 7. Management tasks
To do this task . . .
Use these steps or commands . . .
Start or stop the AdminService in Windows
From the Windows Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools, then choose Services; choose the AdminService for OpenEdge, and click either Start, Restart, or Stop
Start the AdminServer on UNIX
proadsv -start
Start the AdminServer on UNIX using a specified port
proadsv -port port-number -start
Query the AdminServer on UNIX
proadsv -host host-name -user user-name -query
Stop the AdminServer on UNIX
proadsv -stop -port port-number
View a NameServer configuration in the ubroker.properties file
nsconfig -name Name-Server
Validate the syntax and view the configurations of all NameServer instances defined within a specified property file
nsconfig -propfile property-file-path -validate
Start a local NameServer
nsman -name Name-Server -start
Start a remote NameServer1, 2,
nsman -name Name-Server -host host-name
   -port port-number -user user-name -start
Query a local NameServer
nsman -name Name-Server -query
Query a remote NameServer3
nsman -name Name-Server -host host-name
   -port port-number -user user-name -query
Stop a local NameServer
nsman -name Name-Server -stop
Stop a remote NameServer4
nsman -name Name-Server -host host-name
   -port port-number -user user-name -stop
View an AppServer configuration in the ubroker.properties file
asconfig -name AppServer-name
Validate the syntax and view the configurations of all AppServer instances defined within a specified property file
asconfig -propfile property-file-path -validate
Start a local AppServer
asbman -name AppServer-name -start
Start a remote AppServer5
asbman -name AppServer-name -host host-name
   -port port-number -user user-name -start
Query a local AppServer
asbman -name AppServer-name -query
Query a remote AppServer6
asbman -name AppServer-name -host host-name
   -user user-name -query
Query summary of connected clients
asbman -name AppServer-name -listclients
Query detail of connected client
asbman -name AppServer-name -clientdetail connection-handle
Add AppServer agents to a local AppServer
asbman -name AppServer-name -addservers #
Add AppServer agents to a remote AppServer7
asbman -name AppServer-name -host host-name
   -user -addservers #
Trim AppServer agents from a local AppServer
asbman -name AppServer-name -trimservers #
Trim AppServer agents from a remote AppServer8
asbman -name AppServer-name -host host-name
   -user user-name -trimservers #
Stop a local AppServer
asbman -name AppServer-name -stop
Stop a local AppServer
asbman -name AppServer-name -host host-name
   -port port-number -user user-name -stop
1 Prompts for a password.

2 This is a NameServer defined on a remote machine, not a remote NameServer instance defined in the ubroker.properties file of the local machine.

3 Prompts for a password.

4 Prompts for a password.

5 Prompts for a password.

6 Prompts for a password.

7 Prompts for a password.

8 Prompts for a password.