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Managing XML configuration files

With SA you can manage XML configuration files from a central location and propagate changes across multiple servers in your data center. You can create, edit, and store configuration file values to ensure that the XML configuration files on your managed servers are correct. You can manage XML files that use a DTD as well as XML files that do not.

This section discusses how XML configuration templates are structured so you can manage generic (non-DTD) XML files, as well as XML files that reference a DTD. Since XML is well-structured, SA needs only a minimum amount of information to be able to model and manage XML-based configuration files.

To manage XML configuration files you first need to create a template file for your XML configuration file. After creating the template, you must add it to an application configuration object so you can manage, edit, and make changes to the native configuration files on managed servers.

Configuration files

The following section describes a simple XML file and shows how to create an application configuration for a non-DTD based XML file and one for a DTD-based XML file.

Also see the following examples: