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As the administrator of your organization's computing applications, you are responsible for setting up and running a system that is critical to your corporate mission. You must plan how to maximize the performance and reliability of your new BEA TUXEDO system, and then make it happen.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
You are the person responsible for configuring and booting an application and then keeping it running smoothly. Your job can be viewed in two phases:
Most of the work you do during this phase is necessary only once. The exception to this rule is the configuration work: the BEA TUXEDO system allows you to reconfigure your application whenever necessary to maximize performance and reliability.
The remainder of this chapter lists the specific tasks you need to do during each phase.
During this phase, you must do the following tasks.
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Depending on your application, you may also need to set up the following:
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Note: This guide provides instructions for all the tasks shown in this table, except installation. For installation instructions, see BEA TUXEDO Installation Guide.
During this phase, you must do the following tasks.
| Start up | Boot your application. |
| Monitor | Log the activities, problems, and performance of your application and analyze the results regularly. |
| Troubleshoot | Identify and resolve problems as they occur. |
Depending on your application, you may also have to do the following:
At the beginning of this chapter, we summarized your job responsibilities in two phases. For software descriptions and procedures that help you perform your work, refer to the appropriate documentation, as follows:
If you are administering a BEA TUXEDO system, the following chapters are very important:
As an administrator, you need to work with your system designers and application designers to understand how the administrative configuration of your application can support the requirements for it. In addition, you need to know the requirements of your customer: the business unit using the new software.
Before you can start configuring your system, you need answers to questions about the design of your application and about the server applications developed from that design, as defined in the following section.
The following questions may help you start the planning process:
How many machines will be used?
Will client applications reside on machines that are remote from the server applications?
Which services will your BEA TUXEDO application offer?
What resource managers will the application use and where will they be located?
What "open" strings will the resource managers need?
What setup information will be needed for an RDBMS?
Will transactions be distributed?
What buffer types will be used?
Will data be distributed across machines?
To which external domains will the application export services? From which external domains will the application import services?
Will data-dependent routing be used?
What are the reliability requirements? Will redundant listener and handler ports be needed? Will replicated server applications be needed?
The following questions may help you focus on the issues related to your server application that need to be resolved in your plan:
What are the names of the BEA TUXEDO services?
Are there any conversational services?
What resource managers do they access?
What buffer types do they use?
As you start putting together a configuration plan, you will discover more questions to which you need answers.
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