Verifying the successful Siebel Gateway Name Server configuration

If the wizard indicated successful execution, we should check for the existence of a new Windows service labelled Siebel Gateway Name Server. The following screenshot shows the property information of the newly created Siebel Gateway Name Server service on Microsoft Windows.

Note that the startup type is set to Automatic according to the settings in the configuration wizard.

Apart from a new Windows system service, the configuration wizard has also invoked the creation of files needed to run the Siebel Gateway Name Server, namely the file siebns.dat, which we can now find in the ADMIN subdirectory of the Siebel Gateway Name Server installation folder.

The siebns.dat file is the location where the Siebel Gateway Name Server stores all configuration information for any component of the Siebel Enterprise. Apart from information about itself, the Gateway Name Server has not yet written any other information to the file. In the next section, we will use the configuration wizard to create a new Siebel Enterprise.

In the case of any errors being reported by the configuration wizard, we should review its log file, which can be found in the LOG subdirectory of the Siebel Gateway Name Server installation. After correcting the cause of the error, we should execute the configuration wizard again.

Note

On your demonstration machine, launch the Siebel Software Configuration Wizard for the Siebel Enterprise and follow the steps described in the above section to configure a new Siebel Gateway Name Server.