System Administration Guide

Jaguar CTS

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Subject

This book contains information about configuring Jaguar Component Transaction Servers (Jaguar CTS™).

Audience

This book is for anyone responsible for configuring the Jaguar CTS runtime environment, establishing security, or for creating and deploying packages and components on a Jaguar server.

How to use this book

Chapter 1, "Jaguar Configuration" contains information about configuring the Jaguar runtime environment, including:

• Creating Jaguar servers
• Setting server properties
• Setting HTTP properties
• Configuring connection caches
• Configuring the message service

Chapter 2, "Jaguar Naming Services" contains information about using Jaguar naming services to locate objects--such as packages, components, and servers--anywhere on the network.

Chapter 3, "Jaguar Clusters and Synchronization" contains information about creating a cluster of Jaguar servers, which provides high availability for Jaguar services and components, and synchronizing repositories from a primary server within a cluster to other clustered servers, which keeps all of the servers within the cluster up to date.

Chapter 4, "Load Balancing, Failover, and Component Availability" contains information about how to load balance between a cluster of Jaguar servers and how to configure and implement component failover.

Chapter 5, "Security Configuration" contains information about configuring SSL features for Jaguar, including:

• Generating client/server certificates
• Assigning certificates to security profiles
• Assigning security profiles to listeners

It also includes information about:

• Changing the administration password
• Using operating system authentication
• Assigning roles to packages and components

Related documents

The Enterprise Application Server Installation Guide Supplement for your platform contains installation instructions for Solaris and Windows NT. The installation CD includes a README.txt file that contains the latest information about Jaguar.

The Jaguar CTS Getting Started guide contains tutorials that help you become more familiar with Jaguar features. It also contains instructions for starting Jaguar servers and Jaguar Manager. New Features contains information about new features in Jaguar.

The Jaguar CTS Programmer's Guide contains detailed information about C/C++, Java, and ActiveX components, Java stub classes and stub generation, session management, event handlers, and connection management as well as Jaguar's programming models. It provides information on Jaguar-supported datatypes, result-set handling, and compiling dynamic link libraries (DLLs).

The Jaguar CTS API Reference contains reference pages for the Java classes and interfaces and C routines used by Jaguar. It is available in HTML format in the /html/docs directory of your Jaguar installation.

The Sybase Web page provides white papers and other product information. See:

• The EAServer Web site
• The EAStudio Web site

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Conventions

Throughout the rest of this manual:

• Jaguar refers to Jaguar Component Transaction Server.
• EAServer refers to Enterprise Application Server.

The syntax conventions used in this manual are:

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