About This Book

Although the browser-based Management Portal application is the standard tool for managing and administering your Caché system, other tools are also available. This book is a guide to the numerous specialized tools and utilities that can be used to manage, customize, and extend Caché systems.

This book covers the following topics:

• Introduction — a detailed summary of the tools discussed in this book.

• Customizing the Caché System — discusses some ways to customize and extend a standard Caché installation.

• Managing Caché Remotely — discusses routines and utilities for managing Caché from a character-based terminal or an external program.

• Process Management — discusses methods and utilities for managing how an individual process contends for system resources with other concurrent processes.

• Migration and Conversion Utilities — discusses some specialized tools and techniques that can be used when migrating a Caché database to a new system.

For a detailed outline, see the Table of Contents.

For information about related topics, see the following documents:

• Caché System Administration Guide describes the standard tools and procedures for managing a Caché system.

• Using Terminal describes how to use the Caché command-line interface.

• Caché Installation Guide describes the standard procedures for installing Caché on your system.

• Caché Monitoring Guide describes the tools, routines, and third-party interfaces available to monitor Caché.

• Caché Security Administration Guide describes authentication, authorization, auditing, database encryption, SSL/TLS, and other aspects of Caché security.

• Caché Distributed Data Management Guide describes how to configure, manage, and develop distributed systems using the Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP).

For general information, see Using InterSystems Documentation.