About This Manual

This Administration Manual is a guide for the initial and runtime configuration of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20. It introduces application server administration tools and provides comprehensive information and troubleshooting tips on specific points of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 administration.

Target Audience and Prerequisites

The Administration Manual is addressed to system administrators whose task is the initial configuration and further maintenance of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 System. This section must also be considered by administrators and developers who perform deployment tasks and runtime administration of the system.

This manual assumes that you are familiar with the following topics:

The Internet and the World Wide Web
Java programming language
J2EE™ specification

Structure

The contents of this manual is organized into several subsections, as described below:

Administration Tools

This section introduces the tools provided for administration of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20. It provides detailed description of the Visual Administrator tool, Console Administrator tool, Config Tool, and Property Files.

Administration of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 Cluster

This section presents an overview of fundamental clustering concepts implemented in SAP J2EE Engine 6.20. It also describes the general requirements for cluster configuration, how to add nodes to the cluster, and how to administer it with the tools provided.

Administration of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 Stand-Alone Version

This section provides an overview of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 Stand-Alone Version concepts, and guidelines for its administration.

Configuration Tasks

This section provides information on typical administration tasks.

Managers Administration Reference

This section gives administrators information about general and SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 managers-specific properties, critical information, and troubleshooting tips. The section on managers-specific properties describes how to set the properties specified with the Visual Administrator tool, with the Console Administrator tool, and from the property files, as well as important issues from the administration of each manager.

Services Administration Reference

This section gives system administrators information about general and SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 services-specific properties, critical information, and troubleshooting tips. The section on services-specific properties describes how to set the properties specified with the Visual Administrator tool, with the Console Administrator tool, and from the property files, as well as important issues from the administration of each service module.

Shell Commands Reference

This section contains a full description of all SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 Shell language commands, their syntax, properties, and example usage.

Property Files Reference

This section contains information about the content of SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 property files.

Index

This is an index of the keywords used in the Administration Manual in alphabetical order.

Documentation Conventions

The following font styles are used in SAP J2EE Engine 6.20 documentation to denote specific text expressions, words, and so on:

Italic style
Used for file and directory names, system paths, and so on File and directory paths are given in Windows format (with backslashes separating directory names). For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except that slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.
Example:
java.exe, ../cluster/dispatcher/managers/framework.properties
Monospaced font
This font denotes Java source code or contents of any other specific file.
Examples:
Service_0_Name=cluster\dispatcher Service_0_RootDir=C:\SAP_J2EEngine6.20\cluster\dispatcher Service_0_JavaPath=C:\jdk\1.3\bin