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Chapter 2   Administering Enterprise Servers


This chapter describes how to administer Netscape Enterprise Server with the Enterprise Server Administration Server. Using the Administration Server, you can manage servers, add and remove servers, and migrate servers from a previous release.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Accessing the Administration Server

This section describes how to access the Administration Server for UNIX/Linux and Windows NT/Windows 2000 platforms.

UNIX/Linux Platforms

To access the Administration Server in UNIX or Linux platforms, go to the server_root/https-admserv/ directory (for example,
/usr/netscape/server6/https-admserv/) and type ./start. This command starts the Administration Server using the port number you specified during installation.

Windows NT/Windows 2000 Platforms

The Enterprise Server installation program creates a program group with several icons for Windows NT/Windows 2000 platforms. The program group includes the following icons:

Note that the Administration Server runs as a services applet; thus, you can also use the Control Panel to start this service directly.

To access the Administration Server in Windows NT/Windows 2000, perform the following steps:

  1. Double-click the "Start Administration Server" icon, or type the following URL for starting the administration server in your browser:
    2. http://hostname.domain_name:administration_port
     
    Enterprise Server then displays a window prompting you for a user name and password.
     
  2. Type the administration user name and password you specified during installation.
    3. Enterprise Server displays the Administration Server page.
     

For more information, see Administration Server in the online help.

Note  

Enterprise Server requires a browser that supports frames and has JavaScript and cookies enabled.

Since the Administrator Server is accessed through a browser, you can access it from any machine that can reach the server over the network.

Running Multiple Servers

There are two ways you can have multiple web servers running on your system:

Virtual Servers

Virtual servers allow you, with a single installed server, to offer companies or individuals domain names, IP addresses, and some server administration capabilities. For the users, it is almost as if they have their own web server, though you provide the hardware and basic web server maintenance.

The settings for virtual servers are stored in the server.xml file, found in the server_root/https-server_id/config directory. You do not need to edit this file to use virtual servers, but if you would like to learn more about this file, see the Netscape Enterprise Server NSAPI Programmer's Guide.

For more information about virtual servers, see Chapter 11 "Using Virtual Servers."

Installing Multiple Instances of the Server

In past releases of Enterprise Server, virtual servers did not have unique configuration information. The only way to have servers with separate configuration information was to create a new server instance. However, with Enterprise Server 6.1, virtual servers have separate configuration information, so multiple server instances are no longer required. They are still supported, but virtual servers are the preferred way to have multiple servers.

If you choose to install multiple server instances, you can use the Enterprise Server Administration Server to:

If your system is configured to listen to multiple IP addresses enter one of the IP addresses that your system is hosting for each server you install.

If you installed your server before configuring your system to host multiple IP addresses, configure your system to respond to different IP addresses. Then you can either install IP virtual servers or change the server's bind address using the Server Manager and install separate instances of the server for each IP address.

To add another server instance, perform the following steps:

  1. Access the Administration Server and choose the Servers tab.
  2. Click the Add Server link.
  3. Enter the desired information for the specified fields.
    4. Note that the server identifier cannot start with a digit and only Latin-1 characters should be used in instance names.
     

For more information, see The Add Server Page in the online help.

Removing a Server

You can remove a server from your system using the Administration Server. Be sure that you don't need the server anymore before you remove it, since this process cannot be undone.

Note  

Windows NT/Windows 2000 servers have an uninstall program that you can use to remove a server and its associated administration server.

To remove a server from your machine, perform the following steps:

  1. Access the Administration Server and choose the Servers tab.
  2. Click Remove Server.

The Administration Server subsequently deletes the server's configuration files, Server Manager forms, and the following directory (and any subdirectories):

server_root/https-server-id

For more information, see The Remove Server Page in the online help.

Migrating a Server

You can migrate a server instance from iPlanetTM Web Server 4.x to Enterprise Server 6.1. Your iPlanet Web Server 4.x server instance is preserved, and a new Enterprise Server 6.1 server using the same settings is created.

You should stop running iPlanet Web Server 4.x before migrating settings. Make sure you have a compatible version of a web browser installed on your computer before migrating settings.

For a complete description of how to migrate a server, see the Netscape Enterprise Server Installation and Migration Guide.

For more information, see The Migrate Server Page in the online help.



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