Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for UNIX


Using a Text Editor and Configuration Utilities

You can update the ubroker.properties file manually by opening it locally on the machine where it resides using any text editor. This is the only method available to update Unified Broker configurations locally on a UNIX platform.

Guidelines For Editing the Properties File

In general, it is recommended that you update all UNIX configurations remotely using the Progress Explorer tool. If you must update a UNIX configuration locally using a text editor:

The file consists of a hierarchical structure of configuration entities, where parent entities provide configuration information that you can override or extend in each child entity. Each configuration entity has a name that begins the entity definition, and the definition contains configuration settings for one or more products or product instances.

Validating the Properties File

Progress provides a set of configuration validation utilities that you can use to verify the correctness of any changes that you make to this file.

NOTE: If you always use the Progress Explorer from a remote Windows machine, you never have to use these utilities.

On UNIX, you can use the:

When you validate the ubroker.properties file, make sure that you run the configuration utilities that apply to all the component configurations stored in the file.

For more information on editing and validating the ubroker.properties file to configure a NameServer, see the "Editing the Properties File" section. For more information on editing and validating the file for each Unified Broker product, see your product documentation.


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