The product provides a variety of administrative clients
for deploying and administering your applications and application
serving environment, including configurations and logical administrative
domains.
Procedure
- Using the administrative console
The
administrative console is a graphical, browser-based tool.
- Getting started with wsadmin scripting
Scripting
is a non-graphical alternative that you can use to configure and administer
your applications and application serving environment. The WebSphere Application Server wsadmin tool
provides the ability to run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full
range of product administrative activities.
- Using Ant to automate tasks
To support
using Apache Ant with Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
applications running on IBM® WebSphere Application
Server, the product provides a copy of the Ant tool and a set of Ant
tasks that extend the capabilities of Ant to include product-specific
functions.
- Using administrative programs (JMX)
The
product supports access to the administrative functions through a
set of Java classes and methods, under the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification.
You can write a Java program that performs any of
the administrative features of the other administrative clients. You
also can extend the basic product administrative system to include
your own managed resources.
- Using command-line tools
Several
command-line tools are available that you can use to start, stop,
and monitor WebSphere server processes and nodes. These
tools work on local servers and nodes only. They cannot operate on
a remote server or node.