Overview of Administration

TIBCO ActiveSpaces® provides an administrative API and two administrative tools: the Admin object provided in Java, .NET, and C, the as-admin command-line tool and the ActiveSpaces Monitoring and Management (ASMM) web-based tool.

as-admin
 The main administration utility for ActiveSpaces. Provides a command line interface (CLI) that allows you to manage nodes in the ActiveSpaces data grid. Using as-admin, you can:
  • Connect to a metaspace as a full peer or as a remote client.
  • Connect to another member of a metaspace.
  • Run administrative commands as a member of a metaspace or on other members of the metaspace.
  • Run administrative commands that allow you to:
    • Display information about the metaspace and its members.
    • Export the metaspace.
    • Recover the metaspace or one of its spaces.
    • Manage metaspace transactions.
    • Display information about the spaces in the metaspace and their members, data, and locks.
    • Create, join, leave, and alter the definition of spaces in the metaspace.
    • Create and validate security policy files and security token files.
    • Change logging levels.
The Admin Object
 An object provided in the Java, .NET, and C (tibasAdmin) APIs that provides a programmatic interface for executing most of the commands available in as-admin.
ASMM
 ActiveSpaces Monitoring and Management (ASMM) provides a GUI that lets you connect to a metaspace, display information about various ActiveSpaces system resources, for example, metaspaces, metaspace members, spaces, entry statistics, and so on, and browse space entries.

The as-agent Process

In addition to the administration tools, ActiveSpaces provides a process called as-agent that is used:

  • To facilitate deployment of the ActiveSpaces cluster by connecting to a metaspace, joining all distributed spaces in the specified metaspace as a seeder, and keeping the space active.
  • Optionally, to run an as-admin console and issue as-admin administration commands.

The as-dump Utility

ActiveSpaces provides an as-dump utility that you can use to display information about shared-nothing persistence data files.

The as-router Process

ActiveSpaces provides a separate executable called as-router that is used in disaster recovery by replicating transactions and PUT and TAKE operations from an ActiveSpaces cluster on one site to a passive ActiveSpaces cluster on another site.