Welcome to System Administration
Tools
Tools for administering the WebSphere® Application Server product...
- Console
The administrative console is a graphical interface that provides many features to guide you through deployment and systems administration tasks. Use it to explore available management options.
- Scripting
The WebSphere® administrative (wsadmin) scripting program is a powerful, non-graphical command interpreter environment enabling you to execute administrative operations in a scripting language. You can also submit scripting language programs for execution. The wsadmin tool is intended for production environments and unattended operations.
- Commands
Command line tools are simple programs that you run from an operating system command line prompt to perform specific tasks, as opposed to general purpose administration. Using the tools, you can start and stop appservers, check server status, add or remove nodes, and complete similar tasks.
- Programming
The product supports a Java programming interface for developing administrative programs. All of the administrative tools supplied with the product are written according to the API, which is based on the industry standard Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification.
- Data
Product configuration data resides in XML files that are manipulated by the above-mentioned administrative tools.
- Administrative agents
Servers, nodes and node agents, cells and the deployment manager are fundamental concepts in the administrative universe of the product. It is also important to understand the various processes in the administrative topology and the operating environment in which they apply.
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