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Guide


Configuring Distributed DataServer Applications Using the Progress Explorer

The Progress Explorer tool is a graphical user interface that provides an easy way for you to manage Progress servers. Progress Explorer is one of the primary components of the Progress administration framework.

The Progress Explorer tool runs as a Windows client and works with another administration component, the Progress AdminServer, to provide a client/server framework for managing the following Progress servers:

Using the Progress Explorer tool, you can:

For more information about working with the Progress Explorer tool, see the Progress Explorer online help.

The Progress client runs on a client machine (either Windows or UNIX) and accesses a remote server on any supported DataServer for SQL Server™ platform. Multiple NameServers and/or brokers may be running simultaneously on one server machine. The DataServer client connects to a broker for the Progress Explorer either directly or through a controlling NameServer. (See the important note that follows.) It is then automatically reconnected to an Enterprise DataServer established for it by the broker. Each executing broker may spawn a multitude of DataServer processes. A spawned DataServer process uses the ODBC driver to locate and connect to the data source. The actual target database might be either local or remote to the host machine. Note that in this example, the schema holder also runs on the Windows client; however, you can optionally locate it on any host that is accessible on your network. Each spawned DataServer can service database requests for the same database or for a different database than those of other spawned servers.

In remote DataServer configurations, Progress handles the communication between the client and the server. The Progress Explorer supports only the TCP/IP network configuration.

NOTE: In a run-time configuration, all DataServer clients should attach consistently either to a set of NameServers or to a set of brokers. Do not run brokers under controlling NameServers for one client while another client simultaneously attaches directly to a broker.

For more information, about configuring and connecting the DataServer, see the following sections:


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