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Using the Progress Explorer to Configure an AppServer Instance

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, follow these basic steps to configure an AppServer instance:

  1. Make sure that the AdminServer process is running on each of the following machines:
    • Where the AppServer you want to configure is installed
    • Where all NameServers you want to configure are installed
    • On NT, when you complete AppServer installation, the AdminServer automatically starts and is configured to auto-start whenever you reboot your system. You can also start the AdminServer from the Windows NT Services applet available from the Control Panel. The AdminServer is running if you see both a jview.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 Progress proadsv shell script located in ProgressInstallDir/bin.

      For more information on starting the AdminServer, see the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows or the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for UNIX.

  2. 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.
  3. Expand each machine folder to see a list of folders showing all Progress server products installed on the machine.
  4. Select the NameServer product folders where you want to configure NameServers and configure one or more such instances to support all AppServer instances you want to configure. Note that for every AppServer 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 AppServer. This remote NameServer instance must reference the host and port of the controlling NameServer for the AppServer. For more information, see the chapter on configuring Progress Unified Broker products in the Progress Installation and Configuration Guide Version 9 for Windows.
  5. Select the AppServer product folder on the machine where you want the AppServer instance to reside. Configure the instance to register with the controlling NameServer (with or without load balancing). Specify any Application Service names required for clients to access the AppServer and any other required configuration information. For more information, see "Configuring an AppServer Using the Progress Explorer" section.

The following sections describe the basic steps for configuring AppServers. For more information on using the Progress Explorer to configure an AppServer instance, see the Progress Explorer online help.


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