Managing Enterprise Server Regions from Server Explorer

Server Explorer is a window in Visual Studio that enables you to connect to servers, as well as view and access their resources.

For example, you can connect to, view and access the following resources:

  • Data Connections
  • Servers
  • Event Logs
  • Services

In your COBOL development system, you can also view and access a Micro Focus server.

  • Connect to a Micro Focus directory server and check which enterprise servers are running
  • Start and stop Micro Focus enterprise servers
  • Create or delete Micro Focus enterprise servers
  • Run and monitor Enterprise Server Applications
  • Access the enterprise server administration facilities
Note: You can also perform some of these tasks from within Solution Explorer and the context-menu commands available at project level.
The related links contain information on the commands available using Server Explorer for maintaining the Micro Focus servers and mainframe applications:
  1. View the available Micro Focus enterprise servers on your local machine or connect to an enterprise server running on a remote machine
  2. Specify sign on details as required
  3. Open the Enterprise Server Common Web Administration page to configure enterprise servers.
  4. Associate Enterprise Server Applications with enterprise servers.
  5. Start or stop enterprise servers.
  6. Create or delete enterprise servers
  7. Update the status of the enterprise servers.
  8. Use the Enterprise Server Common Web Administration facilities to monitor the execution of your Enterprise Server Applications.

If Server Explorer is not displayed, click View > Server Explorer or View > Other Windows > Server Explorer.

Parent topic: Using Enterprise Server from within the IDE