Understanding Automated Configuration Using the Command Line

PeopleTools provides an automated configuration management framework that enables you to store your environment configuration settings in a persistent state in the form of a template file. After setting up the basic infrastructure of a PeopleSoft environment, including database, application server, Process Scheduler server, and PIA domain, you run an Application Engine program, PTEM_CONFIG. This Application Engine program reads your environment properties from the stored template file, and inserts the stored values into the database, saving you from updating the settings manually each and every time you create or refresh an environment.

The settings stored in the template file are those that you typically enter on a configuration page in PeopleTools and save to the database. For example, the value for your Integration Gateway URL, which you would normally add manually on the Gateways page, can be entered in your template file once, and then retrieved by the automated configuration Application Engine program and inserted into the database each time you refresh that environment.

The PTEM_CONFIG Application Engine program, fires configuration plug-ins that take the properties specified for a particular plug-in, as specified in the template file, and configures the features associated with that plug-in. You enable configuration plug-ins by referencing them in your properties file and specifying the settings for that configuration plug-in.

The automated configuration management framework enables you to create the template file. The file can be created either manually or through PIA.