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   Administering a BEA Tuxedo Application at Run Time

Inter-process communication (IPC) resources are operating system resources, such as message queues, shared memory, and semaphores. When a BEA Tuxedo application shuts down properly with the tmshutdown command, all IPC resources are removed from the system. In some cases, however, an application may fail to shut down properly and stray IPC resources may remain on the system. When this happens, it may not be possible to reboot the application.

One way to address this problem is to remove IPC resources with a script that invokes the system IPCS command and scan for all IPC resources owned by a particular user account. However, with this method, it is difficult to distinguish among different sets of IPC resources; some may belong to the BEA Tuxedo system; some to a particular BEA Tuxedo application; and others to applications unrelated to the BEA Tuxedo system. It is important to be able to distinguish among these sets of resources; unintentional removal of IPC resources can severely damage an application.

The BEA Tuxedo IPC tool (that is, the tmipcrm command) enables you to remove IPC resources allocated by the BEA Tuxedo system (that is, for core BEA Tuxedo and Workstation components only) in an active application.

The command to remove IPC resources, tmipcrm, resides in TUXDIR/bin. This command reads the binary configuration file (TUXCONFIG), and attaches to the bulletin board using the information in this file. tmipcrm works only on the local server machine; it does not clean up IPC resources on remote machines in a BEA Tuxedo configuration.

To run this command, enter it as follows on the command line.

tmipcrm [-y] [-n] [tuxconfig_file]

The IPC tool lists all IPC resources used by the BEA Tuxedo system and gives you the option of removing them.

Note: This command will not work unless you have set the TUXCONFIG environment variable correctly or specified the appropriate TUXCONFIG file on the command line.