The Unified Broker Framework provides a consistent interface for managing all OpenEdge RDBMS products installed on your network, and consists of the following elements:

• AdminServer

  An AdminServer provides secure administrative access to OpenEdge server products. An AdminServer is installed on every system where you install an OpenEdge database. The AdminServer grants access to each instance of an installed OpenEdge product. The AdminServer must be running in order to use OpenEdge Management or the command-line configuration utilities to manage your database.

  In Windows-based systems, the AdminServer starts automatically and runs as a service. For UNIX-based systems, a command-line utility (PROADSV) is used to start and stop the AdminServer. For more information about the AdminServer, see Install OpenEdge.

• Command-line configuration utilities

  The command-line configuration utilities allow you to start, stop, and configure installed OpenEdge RDBMS components. The database related command-line configuration utilities include:

• DBMAN — Starts, stops, and queries the current configuration of an OpenEdge database.
• PROADSV — Starts-up and shuts-down an AdminServer on UNIX. For more information about the AdminServer, see Install OpenEdge.

OpenEdge provides a tool for managing your database configuration, as discussed in OpenEdge Management.