How do I use wsadmin commands to administer applications and their environments?

The wsadmin tool is a command-line interface that provides the ability to automate common tasks using Jacl or Jython scripts. The AdminTask, AdminApp, AdminControl, AdminConfig, and Help objects provide many commands and options that allow us to write and customize scripts to administer the applications, environment, web services, resources, and security configurations.

The % character is a special character used by the Microsoft Windows operating systems. If we are running on a Microsoft Windows operating system, and we are:

• Invoking a command or .bat file, such as stopServer.bat from the profile_root directory, and the command or .bat file contains a call to a .bat file in the installation_root directory and

• Use one or more % characters as part of the value for a parameter

We must use two % characters (%%) for each % character contained in the parameter value to prevent the % characters that are part of the parameter value from being consumed by the operating system.

For example, to use was%admin as the value of the -password parameter, specify the following command:

wsadmin.bat -username wsadmin -password was%%admin

instead of:

wsadmin.bat -username wsadmin -password was%admin

See:

1. Configure web services policy sets
2. Create secure sessions between clients and services
3. Configure application servers
4. Manage application servers
5. Update applications
6. Administer communication with web servers (plug-ins)
7. Balance workloads by clustering application servers
8. Administer HTTP sessions
9. Provide access to relational databases (JDBC resources)
10. Provide access to messaging resources (default messaging provider)
11. Secure applicationss

Related:

Overview: Administering

Use the script library to automate the application serving environment