Mechanics of Configuration
Configuration Files
The EMS server reads configuration files only once, when the server starts. It ignores subsequent changes to the configuration files. If you change a configuration file, use the
shutdown
command from the EMS Administration Tool to shut down the server and then restart the server as described in
Running the EMS Server.
Administrative Requests
You can also change the server configuration with administrative requests, using either
tibemsadmin
(a command line tool), the Java or .NET administrative APIs, or TIBCO Administrator™ (a separate TIBCO product).
When the server validates and accepts an administrative request, it writes the change to the appropriate configuration file as well (overwriting any manual changes to that file). This policy keeps configuration files current in case the server restarts (for example, in a fault-tolerant situation, or after a hardware failure).
Re-installing or updating EMS overwrites the files in the
bin/
and
samples/config/
directories. Do not use these directories to configure your deployment.