OpenEdge Application Server:<br />Administration General steps for using the Progress Explorer to configure an AIA instance

To access the Progress Explorer tool, you can open it from the OpenEdge program group or in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on your Windows system. For more information, see OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration . Once you have opened the Progress Explorer, you can configure an AIA instance.

Make sure that the AdminServer process is running on each of the following machines:

Where AIAs you want to configure are installed.

Where all NameServers you want to configure are installed.

In Windows, when you complete OpenEdge installation, the AdminServer automatically starts and is configured to auto-start whenever you reboot your system. You can also start the AdminServer (AdminService for OpenEdge) from the Windows Services applet available from the Control Panel. The AdminServer is running if you see both a java.exe and admsrvc.exe process listed in the Processes tab of the Task Manager.

On UNIX, use the proadsv command to start the AdminServer. To check whether the AdminServer is running, run the ps command to show the full command line for each process on the system and locate any jre commands in the list. The AdminServer process is running if you see a jre command with the arguments that correspond to those specified for jvmstart in the OpenEdge proadsv shell script located in OpenEdge-Install-Directory/bin.

For more information on using the PROADSV utility, see the "PROADSV" section.

For more information on starting the AdminServer, see OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration .

In the Progress Explorer, connect to the running AdminServer processes that you verified in Step 1. After you connect to a machine running an AdminServer process, its host name or IP address appears as a folder in the tree view.

Expand each machine folder to see a list of folders showing all OpenEdge server products installed on the machine.

If you are using the NameServer, select the NameServer product folders where you want to configure NameServers and configure one or more such instances to support all AIA instances you want to configure. Note that for every AIA instance that you plan to run on a separate machine from its controlling NameServer, you must configure a remote NameServer instance on the same machine as the AIA. This remote NameServer instance must reference the host and port of the controlling NameServer for the AIA. For more information, see the chapter on configuring OpenEdge Unified Broker products in OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration .

Select the AIA product folders where you want the AppServer instances to reside. If you are using the NameServer, configure the instances to register with the controlling NameServer (with or without load balancing). Specify any application service names required for clients to access the AIA and any other required configuration information. For more information, see the "Configuring an AIA with the Progress Explorer" section.

The sections that follow describe the basic steps for configuring each AIA instance. For more information, see the Progress Explorer online help.