Introduction

Discusses the administrator's job, presents a roadmap for the administrator's responsibilities, and outlines how the administrator can plan the configuration.

Administration Tools

Identifies the administration tools.

Creating a Configuration File

Defines the configuration file, explains how to set parameters, and how to configure application-wide parameters, machines, groups, servers, services, interfaces, routing, and network information.

Starting Up and Shutting Down
    Applications

Explains how to start up and shut down applications, how to use the tmshutdown command, and how to clear common problems.

Distributing Applications

Discusses distributed applications, factory-based and data-dependent routing, and how distributed applications affect the UBBCONFIG file.

Building Networked Applications

Defines terms related to networked applications, explains how to configure networked applications, includes an example of a network configuration with multiple netgroups, and explains how to run a networked application.

Administering Transactions

Describes how to modify the UBBCONFIG file and the domain configuration file for transactions, and provides a sample of a distributed application that uses transactions.

Managing Interface Repositories

Discusses administration considerations and commands related to managing interface repositories, and how to start one or more interface repository servers.

Configuring Multiple Domains (WebLogic
    Enterprise Systems)

Explains how to configure multiple WebLogic Enterprise domains. This chapter is specific to the WebLogic Enterprise system.

Working with Multiple Domains
    (BEA Tuxedo Systems)

Explains how to manage multiple domains. This chapter is specific to the BEA Tuxedo system.

Managing Workstation Clients
    (BEA Tuxedo Systems)

Explains how to manage workstation clients. This chapter is specific to the BEA Tuxedo system.

Managing Remote Client Applications
    (WebLogic Enterprise Systems)

Defines terms related to the management of remote client applications, defines "remote client," and explains how to set environment variables and the maximum number of remote clients. Also explains how to configure a listener, and how to modify the UBBCONFIG file to support remote clients. Information about how to set up IIOP to work with remote client applications is included.

Managing Queued Messages
    (BEA Tuxedo Systems)

Explains how to manage queued messages. This chapter is specific to BEA Tuxedo servers.

Securing Applications

Describes how security is incorporated into a WebLogic Enterprise CORBA application. The Security sample application is used as an example.

Monitoring a Running System

Provides an overview of system and application data, explains monitoring methods, discusses using the tmadmin command interpreter, explains how to run the tmadmin commands and how to monitor a running system with tmadmin commands, gives an example of output from the tmadmin commands, and includes a case study.

Monitoring Log Files

Defines the ULOG file and the transaction log, and explains how to create and maintain logs and how to use logs to detect failures.

Tuning Applications

Explains how to maximize application resources, when to use MSSQ sets, how to enable load balancing and assign priorities to interfaces or services, how to bundle services into servers and enhance efficiency with application parameters, and how to set application parameters, determine IPC requirements, and measure system traffic.

Migrating Applications

Discusses migration options, explains how to switch master and backup machines, how to migrate a server group and machines, how to cancel migration, and how to migrate transaction logs to a backup machine.

Dynamically Modifying Systems

Discusses dynamic modification methods and procedures.

Dynamically Reconfiguring Systems

Introduces dynamic reconfiguration, gives an overview of the tmconfig command interpreter, includes general instructions for running tmconfig, and includes procedural information and tips for using dynamic reconfiguration.

Event Broker/Monitor (BEA Tuxedo
    Systems)

Explains how to use the Event Broker. This chapter is specific to the BEA Tuxedo system.

Troubleshooting Applications

Includes such topics as distinguising between types of failures, broadcasting unsolicited messages, performing system file maintenance, and repairing partitioned networks.

Administering the Notification Service

Describes how to create UBBCONFIG files and perform administrative tasks for Notification Service applications.

Managing a WebLogic Enterprise Namespace

Describes how to perform administrative tasks for the Naming Service.

Related Topics

BEA Tuxedo Reference

Documents the BEA Tuxedo system concepts, tasks, reference material, and sample code.

BEA Tuxedo Reference -
   Section 1

This section describes commands and utilities such as qmadmin, tmadmin, tmboot, tmconfig, and tmloadcf.

BEA Tuxedo Reference -
   Section 5

This section describes commands and utilities such as Field Tables, MIB, TM MIBS, TMQFORWARD, TMQUEUE, TMSYSEVT, TMUSREVT, UBBCONFIG.