Use the administrative clients

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

Tasks

• Use the administrative console

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

• Get started with wsadmin scripting

  Script is a non-graphical alternative we can use to administer the applications and application serving environment. The WAS wsadmin tool provides the ability to run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full range of product administrative activities.

  (iSeries) See also Configure Qshell to run WebSphere scripts .

• Use Ant to automate tasks

  To support using Apache Ant with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications running on IBM WAS, WAS v9 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. We can write a Java program that performs any of the administrative features of the other administrative clients. We also can extend the basic product administrative system to include our own managed resources.

• Use command-line tools

  Several command-line tools are available we 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.

  (iSeries) See also Configure Qshell to run WebSphere scripts .

• Use MVS console commands

  These commands are for use on z/OS systems.

Related:

Overview: Administering