Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Installation and Configuration

Starting and managing a NameServer using the NSMAN utility

The NSMAN utility runs on both Windows and UNIX platforms. It allows you to invoke the following management functions on a local or remote NameServer instance:

Start a NameServer.
Check the operational status of the NameServer.
Stop the NameServer.

Unlike the Progress Explorer, the NSMAN utility has no mechanism for viewing log files or deleting configured NameServer instances. If you want to view the NameServer log file or delete the NameServer instance, you must do it manually using operating system commands. To delete the NameServer, you must remove the entry for this NameServer instance in the NameServer properties file. For more information on managing log files, see the "Configuring OpenEdge Unified Broker log files" section. For more information on accessing the NameServer properties file, see the "Editing the properties file" section.

Note: Before you can delete a NameServer instance, you must stop the NameServer.

For example, the following command starts a NameServer instance named NSReservations on a host named SMPflights using UDP port 30000 as user admin:

nsman -name NSReservations -host SMPflights -port 30000 -user admin -start

Note that any NSMAN command that specifies a user name typically also prompts for the password. For complete information about the syntax and the options of the NSMAN command-line utility, see the "NSMAN" section.