Troubleshoot with scripting

Use these topics to learn more about troubleshooting with scripting.

This topic contains the following tasks:

Tasks

• Tracing operations
• Configure traces using scripting
• Turning traces on and off in servers processes using scripting
• Dumping threads in server processes using scripting
• Set up profile scripts to make tracing easier
• Enable the Runtime Performance Advisor tool using scripting

Example

We can set the trace string using either of the following supported formats. For example:

$AdminControl trace com.ibm.*=all=enabled

or

$AdminControl trace com.ibm.*=all

For more instructions, see the tracing and logging information. To set the log level, see the log level settings information.

Subtopics

• Tracing operations
  We can enable and disable tracing with scripting and the wsadmin tool.
• Extracting properties files to troubleshoot the environment
  Use this topic to create a properties file that displays configuration information for a node, application server, application, or other resource. Use this file to troubleshoot a problem in the environment.
• Configure traces using scripting
  Use the wsadmin tool and scripting to configure traces for a configured server.
• Turning traces on and off in servers processes using scripting
  Use scripting to turn traces on or off in server processes.
• Dumping threads in server processes using scripting
  Use the AdminControl object to produce a Java core dump, which includes the Java threads of a running server.
• Set up profile scripts to make tracing easier
  Use scripting and the wsadmin tool to set up profile scripts to facilitate tracing.
• Enable the Runtime Performance Advisor tool using scripting
  We can configure the Runtime Performance Advisor (RPA) using the wsadmin tool or the administrative console.
• AdministrationReports .
  Use the Jython or Jacl scripting languages to troubleshoot the configuration with the wsadmin tool. The commands in the AdministrationReports group can be used to create a report of inconsistencies in the system configuration or a report that describes the port usage in the system.
• Configure HPEL with wsadmin scripting
  We can configure the High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) log and trace framework using wsadmin.sh. Use the examples in this topic as a guide to build our own wsadmin scripts.

Use wsadmin scripting

Get started with wsadmin scripting

Log level settings