2 Managing the Administration Server

The administration server is a specially configured Oracle Traffic Director virtual server that you can use to create, monitor, and manage Oracle Traffic Director instances.

For information about the role of the administration server in the administrative framework of Oracle Traffic Director, see Section 1.6, "Administration Framework of Oracle Traffic Director."

This chapter describes how to create, remove, start, stop, and restart the administration server; and how to configure its settings. It also describes how to access the administration interfaces of Oracle Traffic Director—the administration console and the command-line interface.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section 2.1, "Creating the Administration Server"

• Section 2.2, "Starting the Administration Server"

• Section 2.3, "Accessing the Administration Interfaces"

• Section 2.4, "Stopping and Restarting the Administration Server"

• Section 2.5, "Viewing Administration Server Settings"

• Section 2.6, "Changing Administration Server Settings"

• Section 2.7, "Removing the Administration Server Instance"