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6.9. Editing Connection Settings

6.9.1. Changing the General Properties for an EAP 6 Server

The connection settings are the properties that the JBoss ON agent uses to connect to a resource; the connection settings to use are identified in the plug-in descriptor for the resource.
Connection settings are only configurable for a domain controller or standalone server; all of the child resource connection properties are derived from the main server configuration.
  1. Click the Inventory tab in the top menu.
  2. Select Servers - Top Level Imports in the Resources menu table on the left. Select the JBoss EAP 6 server.
  3. In the inventory tree, select the top resource entry for the server.
  4. Open the Inventory tab, and select the Connection Settings subtab.
  5. The server connection properties are in the General Properties section. Only some of the properties can be edited. Information that is derived from the JBoss EAP 6 installation itself, like the home directory, base directory, and server type (EAP or AS) is displayed, but is inactive.
    • Hostname gives IP address to use to connect to the server. This is usually 127.0.0.1, but if the management interface configuration has been changed, then the IP address may be a public IP instead of the localhost.
    • Port is the port of the management interface.
    • Username and Password are the credentials of the JBoss EAP 6 user for the agent to use to log in. If this user was created using the install RHQ user operation, then the user is rhqadmin.
    • Domain Controllers Only. With the standalone server, all of the configuration and the server instance definition are in the same file, standalone.xml or any other configuration file passed to the start script. For domains, the server configuration is defined in one file (for the domain controller), while the server instances are defined in a separate file (for the host controller). The Domain Configuration and Host Configuration fields give the names of the files within the domain/configuration/ directory to reference for profile configuration and for managed server instances, respectively.
  6. Click the Save button at the top of the page.

Note

Along with displaying the information in the Connection Settings area, the settings for a standalone server are also displayed (but not editable) in the Configuration tab, under the Server Environment area.

6.9.2. Viewing Installation Paths for EAP 6 Child Resources

Child resources for EAP 6 server such as managed servers, subsystem services, JVM definitions, and server groups are defined within the EAP 6 server's configuration files.
The "connection setting" for the child resource, then, is the entry in that server's configuration.
The connection setting is viewable in the child resource's Inventory > Connection Settings tab, but it cannot be edited because it is intrinsic to the resource itself. The connection setting for the child is the resource.
For example, the main-server-group definition is in the domain controller's domain.xml file: 
    <server-groups>
        <server-group name="main-server-group" profile="full">
		... 8< ...
In the JBoss ON GUI, the definition is given as the connection setting path, in the form element=name
Child Resource Connection Settings

Figure 6.2. Child Resource Connection Settings