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Web.cfg and CA SDM

You can use the supplied pdm_edit.pl script to assist in configuring CA SDM web engines. Without the script, a user adding a web engine must manually specify the name, and create a unique instance of a web.cfg file. The script does these tasks automatically.

When you use the pdm_edit.pl script to configure a web engine, the script automatically creates and names a script for you. The name is constructed as follows:

“<Host_Name>-web[#].cfg”
host name

Specifies the server as primary when the web engine resides on a primary server, or specifies the actual server host name when the web engine resides on a secondary server.

[#]

Specifies an integer value automatically assigned by pdm_edit.pl and incremented for each web engine on a server.

For the default web engine configuration file, the CA SDM installation delivers one default web engine configuration file, defined by the following file:

$NX_ROOT/bopcfg/www/web.cfg

After the default web engine is modified through pdm_edit.pl, the web engine configuration file that is generated follows this new naming scheme:

<Host_Name>-web[#].cfg

Thereafter, the original web.cfg file, and any of its customizations, is ignored. If the user wants to preserve any customizations from the original web.cfg, the user must verify that the $NX_ROOT/bopcfg/www/web.cfg is selected as the template file to use when pdm_edit.pl creates the <Host_Name>-web[#].cfg files.