2.14.1 Description

The administration server is responsible for the administration of CICS resources. It provides the following functionalities:

• Takes charge of loading the resource definitions used by other servers.
• Offers the services used by artadmin (ART administration console) for dynamic administration of CICS resources and propagates the dynamic configuration requests from artadmin to all the appropriate servers in the system.
• Propagates the resource definition files to the slave machines from the central configuration repository when configured on each node in a distributed environment.

  The configuration files only need to be configured on the master node, and the administration servers propagate the configuration files to each slave node.