The Management Console supports configuration and administration of the proxy and proxy components. It offers a Java GUI that facilitates the necessary configuration steps.
The Management Console is able to work with more than one proxy, local or remote.
Local means that the proxy is located on the same computer as the Management Console and that the proxy is installed under the same user ID, or that the access rights to the user ID under which the proxy is installed have been set accordingly.
Remote means that the proxy is installed on a different computer from the Management Console or that the proxy is installed on the same computer but under a different user ID which the Management Console is not able to access.
Remote access is carried out with the Management Console Command Handler (MC-CmdHandler). The MC-CmdHandler is a stand-alone Java program which allows the Management Console to manage remote proxies.
The administrator uses the Management Console to define all necessary information for the proxy configuration. The following information can be specified:
General information on the proxy or the proxy cluster
Management of the properties of resource adapters and access to the resource adapters' deployment descriptors
Description of the EIS partners
The services and the communication endpoints for outbound communication (see Outbound communication )
The Services and the message endpoints for inbound communication (see Inbound communication )
Connection to the JMX server for access to MBeans and the information and functions which these provide
Additionally for CICS partners:
Connection to the openUTM-LU62 Gateway
Connection between the Communication Service and the EIS partner
The configuration data is stored by the Management Console so that it is available in subsequent Management Console sessions and can be modified or completed. The Management Console creates the configuration files to be used by the proxy, the proxy components and the EIS.
You can also use the command line interface (MC-CLI) to read the configuration data of the BeanConnect configuration, see Command Line Interface of the BeanConnect Management Console (MC-CLI) .