Managing a Remote Service Using the OpenAccess SDK Management Console
The Management Console can be used to manage configuration on remote systems by connecting to a remote agent service. Because it connects directly to the configuration file oadm.ini, the Management Console can to view or update configuration files obtained from remote installations.
Note: The following procedure describes the steps to add a snap-in on Windows 7. The steps in your environment may differ slightly, depending on the Windows version you are using.
1. From the Management Console, select File / Add/Remove Snap-in. The Add/Remove Snap-in window appears, with a list of any Snap-ins that have already been added.
2. Click Add. The Add Standalone Snap-in window appears.
3. Select DataDirect OpenAccess SDK 8.1 Manager and click Add to it to the Selected snap-ins pane.
4. In the Add Manager Welcome window, select Remote Host, and then click Next.
Note: Select Offline Configuration if you want to directly manipulate the configuration file oadm.ini. This is useful for using the OpenAccess SDK Management console to view a configuration from another machine to which you cannot directly connect. In this case, copy the oadmi.ini from the remote system to your system.
5. The Add Manager Agent window appears.
Perform the following actions:
a. In the Host field, type the name or address of the host on which the Agent is running.
b. In the TCP Port field, type the number of the TCP port on which the Agent will be listening. The TCP port must be an available port (cannot be used by another service).
c. If the remote OpenAccess SDK Agent is configured for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, select the Encrypted SSL check box. If connecting to an Agent service enabled for SSL, you must select this check box.
When the check box is cleared (the default), communication between the OpenAccess SDK Agent and OpenAccess SDK Agent Service is not encrypted.
d. Click Finish.
The remote agent appears in the Management Console as a node named Manager (tcp://host:port), where host and port are the values that you specified. If you selected the Encrypted SSL check box, the node is named Manager (ssl://host:port).
