Chapter 2. Configuration and Administration of Tuxedo

In this chapter, we will discuss the essentials of Tuxedo configuration and administration and the tools used by a Tuxedo administrator to perform day-to-day operations.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Administration of a Tuxedo application

• Structure of a Tuxedo application (configuration file)

• Parameters in the configuration file

• Environment variables

• Commands and tools to build, monitor, and change the Tuxedo system configuration

• Various important components and built-in features of Tuxedo

• Tuning and monitoring guidelines

This chapter is basically dedicated to Tuxedo administrators and is divided into two main categories. The first one is configuring and setting up a Tuxedo application, and the other is monitoring/administrating a Tuxedo application. It is very important to understand how to structure a Tuxedo application using a configuration file called UBBCONFIG, as well as to understand each and every parameter in the...