If you want to administer several UTM applications centrally, you can either use WinAdmin or WebAdmin or perform administration using your own command procedures or administration programs.
WinAdmin and WebAdmin provide all the functions of the programming interface in a convenient user interface. You can administer several UTM applications running on different computers with BS2000, Unix, Linux or Windows systems at the same time.
WinAdmin and WebAdmin are easy and quick to use, as no programming is required, either on the administration computer or in the UTM applications to be administered.
You can create your own command procedures or programs if, for instance, you wish to use functions that are not provided by WinAdmin or WebAdmin.
The administration tasks are split into a centralized part, the administration application, and a remote part which runs on the particular UTM application to be administered.
You can handle central administration either via the command interface or via the program interface. You are advised to always use the program interface for the administration of the program interface.
A number of basic models are available for configuring the central administration functions, see "Configuration models for own application of administration".
Administration of UTM cluster applications (Unix, Linux and Windows systems)
You can administer the node applications of a UTM cluster application together.
WinAdmin and WebAdmin provide administration functions which you can apply globally to all of the node applications of the UTM cluster application. Furthermore, WinAdmin and WebAdmin allow you, for example, to display statistical summaries which include all the running node applications.
For this reason, you are recommended to use WinAdmin or WebAdmin to administer UTM cluster applications.
You can create your own command procedures or programs in the usual way. Additional data structures are available for administering UTM cluster applications:
The data structure kc_cluster_par_str is defined for the parameter type KC_CLUSTER_PAR. UTM uses kc_cluster_par_str to return the current settings for the global properties made in a UTM cluster application together with current data (e.g. generation time, start time, number of active and generated node applications) (see section "kc_cluster_par_str - Global properties of a UTM cluster application").
The data structure kc_cluster_node_str is defined for the object type KC_CLUSTER_NODE. UTM uses kc_cluster_node_str to return the properties of the individual node applications (instances) in a UTM cluster application (see section "kc_cluster_node_str - Node applications of a UTM cluster application").
The data structure kc_cluster_curr_par_str is defined for the object type KC_CLUSTER_CURR_PAR. UTM returns current values for the UTM cluster application in kc_cluster_curr_par_str (see section "kc_cluster_curr_par_str -Statistics values of a UTM cluster application"). In addition, kc_cluster_curr_par_str can be used to reset the statistics counters of the UTM cluster application.
In section "Generation example for a UTM cluster application" in chapter "Administration via UPIC clients", you can find a generation example for the administration of a UTM cluster application via a UPIC client.
 | You can find further information on administering UTM cluster applications in the openUTM manual “Using UTM Applications on Unix, Linux and Windows Systems” |