Yes, Exploder is the replacement for Procontrol.
Explorer isn't that bad, and now that more and more sys admins are only interested in administering things with GUI tools its the way things are going to be for the foreseeable future. I'd recommend getting used to it.
Architect uses JDBC to connect to the database, so you'll need to set that up. There'll be something on the knowledge centre about this I suspect.
I'm using 10.1E.....
I'm using 10.1E.
Bof,
Once you've got databases set up through Explorer just use dbman from the command line to start/stop them. Similarly for appservers use asbman. It allows remote admin with the -H option.
Explorer isn't that bad,
... and now that more and more sys admins are only interested in administering things with GUI tools its the way things are going to be for the foreseeable future.
I'd recommend getting used to it.