Using properties files to manage system configuration
Use the wsadmin tool and properties files to administer your administrative architecture and runtime settings.
About this task
You can use properties files to manage your environment and configuration objects. You can extract configuration objects in simple properties file format, modify the extracted properties file, and apply the modified properties file to update the system configuration.
- Extract properties required to run an administrative command.
- Run an administrative command using an extracted properties file.
- Extract or modify properties for any WCCM object type.
- Extract or modify all properties of an object type.
- Delete or remove a property and modify a property using a single properties file.
- Delete a configuration object in the same properties file that is used to create or modify properties.
- Required properties for creating a new object of any type.
- Default values for a property.
- Range of values for a property.
Properties files are portable. You can extract a properties file from one cell, modify some environment-specific variables in the extracted properties file, and then apply the modified properties file to another cell.
To use non-English, localized special characters in properties files, save the properties files using UTF-8 encoding. Using any other encoding might cause errors when the product resolves the non-English resources during properties file validation or cause incorrect value changes in the configuration files after applying the properties files.
Procedure
- Manage environment configurations with properties files.
- Extract properties files.
- Validate properties files.
- Apply properties files.
- Run administrative commands using properties files.
- Extract or modify properties for a WCCM object type.
- Apply portable properties files across multiple environments.
- Manage specific configuration objects with properties files.
What to do next
Save the changes to your configuration.