Building Distributed
Applications
Using the Progress AppServer
Starting and Managing an AppServer with the Progress Explorer
You can use the Progress Explorer on a Windows platform to start:
To access the Progress Explorer tool, you can open it from the Progress program group or in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on your Windows system. For more information, see the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows. Once you have opened the Progress Explorer in the MMC, follow these basic steps to start an AppServer instance:
- In the Progress Explorer, connect to each of the running AdminServer processes required by your AppServer configuration. The name or IP address of the machine running each of these processes appears as a folder in the tree view.
- Expand each machine folder to see a list of folders showing the name of each NameServer and AppServer product installed on the machine.
- Expand the NameServer folder under each machine to see a list of configured NameServers.
- Start each NameServer that you need to support your AppServer instance and that is not already auto started. For more information, see the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows or the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for UNIX.
- Start each Progress Database or DataServer that your application requires and that is not already auto started. For more information on starting databases and DataServers, see the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows or the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for UNIX.
- Under the machine folder where it resides, expand the AppServer folder for the instance you want to start.
- Select the AppServer instance you want to start.
- Do one of the following:
Using the Progress Explorer you can also invoke the following management functions for the running AppServer instance:
NOTE: You cannot stop the AppServer if it is actively handling any client requests.- Stop the AppServer.
- Check and manage the operational status of the AppServer. Using the status dialog box, you can also reduce (Trim servers button) and increase (Add servers button) the number of running Application Server processes for this AppServer. For more information on the effects of these functions, see the "Specifying the Server Pool Parameters" section. For more information on AppServer status indicators, see the "Checking AppServer Status" section.
- View the log files for the AppServer. To view a log file, expand the AppServer instance folder in the tree view and select the log file you want to view. The contents of the log file appears in the right pane.
NOTE: Before you can delete an AppServer instance, you must stop the AppServer.- Delete the AppServer instance.
For more information on using the Progress Explorer to start and manage an AppServer instance, see the Progress Explorer online help.
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