The AdminServer is a central controlling element of OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer. It helps to manage and configure your installation by recognizing start and stop requests initiated by OpenEdge products. The following are the key functions of the AdminServer:

  • Provides administrative features that allow users to restrict access to supported OpenEdge products.

  • Governs remote management and configuration capabilities for various OpenEdge components, including NameServer, OpenEdge DataServer for Oracle, and OpenEdge DataServer for MS SQL Server and management tools, such as DBMAN.

  • Built on an extensible framework that hosts OpenEdge products as plug-ins. It loads the plug-ins and can accept local and remote requests from OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer, mergeprop utility, and other command-line utilities. However, the actual work is performed within the plug-ins themselves because they provide the specific management functions for a particular product.
    Note: To use the command-line management utilities (such as NSMAN, ORAMAN, and MSSMAN) or the OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer configuration tools ensure that the AdminServer is running. Only the mergeprop utility and the OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer configuration tool perform the actual configuration of OpenEdge server products, and such changes affect the data stored in the ubroker.properties or conmgr.properties files.