Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Installation and Configuration

Understanding and Using the AdminServer

As noted in Table 10–1, the AdminServer is the central control of the Progress Explorer Framework. It facilitates the tasks associated with managing and configuring your installation by ensuring that start and stop requests initiated by OpenEdge products are recognized. In addition to the footnotes identified in Table 10–1, note these points about the AdminServer:

To start and stop the AdminServer, you can either enter the PROADSV command on the Proenv command line or access the Services tab by choosing Control Panel Administrative Tools Services.
To manage and configure plugins such as WebSpeed or AppServer, you can use the Progress Explorer tool.

Minimize the possibility of a security breach by not starting AdminServer as root.

Minimize the potential for security risks through the AdminServer functionality by ensuring that you do not start the AdminServer as root. Keep in mind that if you do start the AdminServer in this state, all broker processes to start as root, leaving your entire system vulnerable to security issues.

The AdminServer has an extensible framework to host the OpenEdge products as plugins.

The AdminServer loads the plugins and can accept local and remote requests from the Progress Explorer, mergeprop utility, and the command-line utilities. However, the actual work is performed within the plugins themselves as they provide the specific management functions for a particular product.