The SOA Gateway Control center provides a single-point-of-control facility for managing SOA Gateway server configurations.
The primary elements of the SOA Gateway Perspective are the
SOA Gateway Servers View - lists defined servers and their status, server related operations are initiated here
SOA Gateway Server Configuration View - a view of the server's defined resources
SOA Gateway Action Log - displays informational and error messages
The properties area
The first action to be carried out is to define a server.
Important:
The Deployment Wizard may have created a server already, so
this step may be skipped in this scenario.
Click on the server icon to the right of the SOA Gateway Servers Tab to bring up the New Server Dialog.
Enter a symbolic name for the server to be defined, and the connection details - the server's host name / IP address and the port the server is listening on.
Check the Autosave box if you want to have all changes made to a server's configuration to be "auto-committed", otherwise the configuration will have to be "saved" manually in order to not lose the changes when the server is restarted. It is highly recommended to enable this checkbox.
Check the Autosuspend box if you want each of the defined servers to be put into a suspended mode when Eclipse exits. This is be useful as it speeds up Eclipse initialization. Although, once the Control Center starts, you will have to resume each of your servers before working with them again.
In case the server is slow in responding to requests from the Control Center, the Timeout may need to be set to a value higher than the default of 10 seconds.
Click .
The server will appear in the Servers View. Servers wich are reachable are indicated by a green arrow, unreachable servers are denoted by a red circle, a message in the Properties area indicates the reason why the server cannot be contacted.
The "Action Log" provides additional status information.
Clicking on a server entry in the Servers View will trigger the display of the server's configuration in the Server Configuration View.
More information about the various views and their functions can be found in the SOA Gateway Control Center section.
