During the Oracle Tuxedo software installation, the installer program places most of the directories and files for the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console in the webgui directory, as shown in Figure 7‑1.
• An HTML template file named webgui.html, which is used by the common gateway interface (CGI) program tuxadm as the basis for many screens displayed during a Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console session.
• An HTML file named webguitop.html, which displays legal notices and warnings when the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console is first brought up on the screen.The installer program installs the class files for the Java applet in the java directory, and installs the tuxadm program in the cgi-bin directory. The installer assigns an alias pathname for tuxadm, which is used by Web clients to access tuxadm. The alias pathname is \cgi-bin on a Windows 2003 Server system and /cgi-bin on a UNIX system.The Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console server for Oracle Tuxedo 12c Release 1 (12.1.1) is supported on the following platforms:The encryption level for the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console is set with the ENCRYPTBITS parameter in the webgui.ini file for the Console. In the following webgui.ini file, the encryption level is set to 56 bits.The ENCRYPTBITS parameter specifies the strength of encryption used in communication between the GUI applet and the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console server. The ENCRYPTBITS parameter can be set to 0, 56, or 128. The default value is 128.Table 7‑1 lists the platforms and browsers supported for Oracle Tuxedo 12c Release 1 (12.1.1) when the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console is configured for 56-bit or 128-bit encryption.
Table 7‑1 Platforms and Browsers Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (32-bit) on x86 To run the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console, first set up your environment as described in “Setting Up Your Environment” on page 6‑9. Ensure that your TUXDIR, WEBJAVADIR, and PATH environment variables are set correctly. Then set up the following two server processes:A server required to administer the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console. It must be run on the MASTER machine in a Tuxedo multi-machine configuration.After starting the tuxwsvr and wlisten server processes, you can start the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console to monitor the tuxwsvr server and the Oracle Tuxedo application.The tuxwsvr process is a Web server process that can be used to support the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console GUI by customers who do not have a commercial Web server or a public-domain Web server on the machine on which the Oracle Tuxedo Web GUI processes are running. The tuxwsvr process places itself in the background when invoked unless otherwise specified, and continues running until the machine shuts down or the tuxwsvr process is killed using an operating system command.Table 7‑2 lists the commands for starting tuxwsvr.
Table 7‑2 Starting tuxsvr Windows 2003 Server system The Oracle Tuxedo installer program creates the tuxwsvr.ini file, an example of which is shown below:Usually, you do not need to edit this file, but under certain circumstances, you may want to do so. For example, you may decide to move your Java files to a non-default directory. In that case, you would need to edit the pathnames in the initialization file appropriately. For details, see reference page tuxwsvr(1) in Oracle Tuxedo Command Reference.The wlisten process is a listener process that receives incoming connections from Web GUI applets and starts a Web GUI gateway process (wgated). All wlisten options are taken from an initialization file that is specified by the -i option. If the -i option is not given, then %TUXDIR%\udataobj\webgui\webgui.ini is used as the default initialization file on a Windows 2003 Server system, and $TUXDIR/udataobj/webgui/webgui.ini is used as the default initialization file on a UNIX system.To start wlisten, follow these steps:
1. Check the webgui.ini file to make sure that the default values assigned to the parameters during installation are appropriate. If they are not, make the necessary changes.For example, on a machine called foo5, the default port assigned to wlisten is 4003. To run wlisten with port 6060, edit the NADDR parameter as follows:For details about other parameters in the webgui.ini file, see reference page wlisten(1) in Oracle Tuxedo Command Reference.The tuxadm process is a CGI process used to initialize the Web GUI from a browser. As shown in the “Synopsis” section of reference page tuxadm(1), this program can be used only as a location, or URL from a Web browser; normally it is not executed from a standard command-line prompt. Like other CGI programs, tuxadm uses the QUERY_STRING environment variable to parse its argument list.For example: http://foo5:4003/webguitop.htmlUse of this URL depends on the following assumption: You are using tuxwsvr with the tuxwsvr.ini file. If you are using a commercial browser on the default port (8080), you can use a URL such as http://ctomsn:8080/webguitop.html.
4. Table 7‑3 contains instructions for accessing additional information about the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console main window.
See “Administration Console Tutorial” in Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console Online Help. See “A Tour of the Main Window” in Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console Online Help. The main window is not displayed and the Connect Failed error message is displayed
1. On the Administration Console server machine, verify that the wlisten process is running. On a UNIX machine, for example, enter the ps command.
2. If wlisten is not running, open the webgui.ini file and, in the line NADDR=//foo5:4003, replace the port number (4003) with a valid port number.
3. Enter wlisten again:
• $ wlisten -i %TUXDIR%\udataobj\webgui\webgui.ini (on Windows 2003 Server )
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4. Check that the tuxwsvr process is running at the port specified in the URL.
5. Verify the password. It must match one of the entries in the tlisten.pw file.To exit the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console, choose Domain → Exit from the menu bar. This menu option closes the current domain and exits the Oracle Tuxedo Administration Console applet.