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Chapter 1 Introduction : Overview of Central Administration

Overview of Central Administration
Central Administration for TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is a tool that allows administrators to make changes to multiple EMS server configurations and deploy those as a single action.
The major benefits of Central Configuration are:
Graphical User Interface  Central Administration provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring TIBCO Enterprise Message Service servers.
Centralized Configuration  You can also apply configuration changes across multiple TIBCO Enterprise Message Service servers from a single location.
Requirements
In order to use Central Administration, you must meet these requirements:
Administrative Privileges  The Central Administration user who deploys changes to an EMS server must have administrative permissions to modify any EMS server setting.
The same username and password used to log in to the Central Administration web interface is used to log on to the EMS server. When JAAS authentication is not configured, the Central Administration server uses the default credentials of user admin with no password.
See How the Central Administration Server Connects to the EMS Server for more information.
JSON Configuration Files  EMS servers must use configuration files based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). In software release 7.0, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service introduced an EMS server configuration method based on JSON configuration files. Text-based .conf files are not supported using Central Administration.
See JSON Configuration Files for information about JSON files and steps to convert old server configuration files to JSON.
Supported Browser  The Central Administration web interface can be accessed using browsers supported by their respective vendors at the time of writing. HTML 5-compliant browsers with JavaScript enabled are supported. See the readme file for a full list of supported browsers.

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