Solstice Enterprise Manager 4.1 CORBA Gateway Administration Guide

Preface

The CORBA Gateway Administration Guide provides information on installing, configuring and using the SEM CORBA ToolKit to build and package the SEM CORBA Gateways. It contains a introduction to CORBA Gateways, followed by an overview of the ToolKit, and the subsequent chapters describe the administration tasks and how to carry out these tasks on each of the SEM CORBA Gateway components.

Who Should Use This Book

This document is intended for SEM CORBA system administrators and application development engineers. Application development engineers may refer to this guide to build and package SEM CORBA Gateway executables and find out how to fine tune configuration parameters and use debug options.

Before You Read This Book

This book assumes:

• A good understanding of Solstice EM (including some experience)
• A basic knowledge of CORBA

How This Book Is Organized

This book contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 Introduction explains what a CORBA Gateway is, and lists the tasks involved in its administration.

Chapter 2 SEM CORBA ToolKit explains how to compile, build and package the SEM CORBA Gateway using the ToolKit.

Chapter 3 Administering the System explains how to configure, start, stop and troubleshoot Gateway components.

Chapter 4 Improving CORBA Gateway Performance explains how to optimize and improve the performance of CORBA Gateways.

Related Books

Refer to the following publications for additional information about related topics:

• Management Information Server (MIS) Guide
• Managing Your Network
• Customizing Guide
• Developing CORBA Applications

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

TABLE P-1   Typographic Conventions 

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output.	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output.	machine_name% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value.	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized.	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

TABLE P-2   Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	machine_name%
C shell superuser prompt	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	#

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