Using System Manager and InterChange Server Express on separate machines

System Manager and the related design and development tools provided in Toolset Express are graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

InterChange Server Express is supported for production on the following platforms:

Although you can do most of your development work in System Manager independently of InterChange Server Express, you will need to connect System Manager to the InterChange Server Express machine to deploy your project and to use some of the administrative tools that are provided with Toolset Express.

System Manager running on a Windows 2000 or Windows XP machine can communicate with InterChange Server Express running on any of the platforms supported by WebSphere Business Integration Server Express 4.3.1. This communication takes place through the object request broker, and is established by setting the ORB_HOST variable in the CWSharedEnv.bat file on the Windows machine on which you have installed System Manager.

If you installed System Manager at the same time that you installed InterChange Server Express, the necessary values for the ORB_HOST variable were established at that time.

However, if you installed System Manager first, and later you want System Manager to communicate with InterChange Server Express on another machine, you must manually perform the configuration to identify that machine. To do so, do the following:

  1. Open the CWSharedEnv.bat file on the Windows machine in a text editor.
  2. Edit the ORB_HOST variable so that it matches the host name machine of the networked machine on which the InterChange Server Express instance is running. The value can be an IP address or it can be a host name if you have a DNS. For example, if InterChange Server Express is running on an OS/400 or i5/OS operating system machine with the host name myiSeries, then edit the ORB_HOST variable in CWSharedEnv.bat to look like this:
    set ORB_HOST=myiSeries

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