Using the administrative clients

The product provides a variety of administrative clients for deploying and administering your applications and application serving environment, including configurations and logical administrative domains.

• Use the administrative console.

  The administrative console is a graphical, browser-based tool.

• Use 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.

  See also Configuring Qshell to run WebSphere scripts using wsadmin scripting.

• Use 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.

• Use 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.

• Use 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.

  See also Configuring Qshell to run WebSphere scripts using wsadmin scripting.