OpenEdge Application Server:<br />Administration Configuring an AIA with the Progress Explorer

Make sure the AdminServer is running on the host where you want to configure the AIA (see the "General steps for using the Progress Explorer to configure an AIA instance" section).

Open the Progress Explorer.

Connect to the AdminServer on your AIA host (see OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration ).

Do one of the following:

To define a new AIA, select the AIA folder in the Progress Explorer’s tree view, right-click, and choose New. Enter a unique name for the AIA and click OK. Then open the property editor for the new instance by selecting the instance, right-clicking, and choosing Properties.

To modify an existing AIA configuration, expand the AIA folder in the tree view, select the AIA instance you want to modify, and open the AIA property editor.

The AIA instance property editor shows a tree view of property categories on the left and the properties for the selected category on the right.

Select a property category and set the properties as required. You can accept the default values, if they are appropriate for your application. You probably want to specify the properties under each category. See the Progress Explorer online help for detailed information about the following categories:

General — Enter an Idle Connection Timeout value, in seconds, to specify the period of inactivity between the AIA and the client after which the AIA automatically disconnects from the AppServer or BrokerConnect. If you want this AIA instance to be HTTPS-enabled, check the box and enter the Secure Port number to specify where the AIA listens for HTTPS requests.

Controlling NameServer — You must indicate whether you plan to use a NameServer to control AIA access. If so, check the Register With NameServer box and select a controlling NameServer from the list of NameServer instances that you have already configured; also, in the NameServer Client Port Range section, enter minimum and maximum values (between 1024 and 65535) for the UDP port that the AIA instance can select to communicate with the NameServer (or enter 0 in both fields to allow random port selection within that range). If you are not using a NameServer, specify in the AppServer Location section the host and port location of the AppServer that is to handle client requests sent to this AIA instance.

Logging Setting — You can set the following logging options: specify a different pathname from the default for the broker log file; specify the level of logging detail; control whether the logging for a session appends to or overwrites the previous broker log file; specify a comma-separated list of logging entry types to be included in the broker log file, choosing from the valid values listed in the Progress Explorer online help; set a file-size threshold that determines the point at which a new log file is created (0 = unlimited log file size); and specify the maximum number of broker log files to be kept (0 = unlimited number of log files retained). See OpenEdge Development: Debugging and Troubleshooting for detailed information on logging options.

SSL — Check the Enable SSL AppServer Connections box if you want the AIA to be SSL-enabled; that is, to use SSL tunneling when connecting to the AppServer or BrokerConnect. If the AIA is SSL-enabled, you can optionally check the remaining boxes to disable host name verification and to prevent clients from requesting reuse of the session ID for successive connections to the same AppServer or BrokerConnect. (Leaving the Disable SSL Session Reuse box unchecked does not guarantee that session IDs can be reused, because the server might disallow session reuse.)

Advanced Features — To make it possible to run the AIA's internal administrative commands from one or more IP addresses that you specify, check the Internal Administrative Command box. If this box is checked, you can maintain a list of authorized IP addresses. To add an address, type it in the IP Address field and click Add; to remove an address from the list, select it and click Delete.