Use command assistance to see wsadmin scripting commands that correspond to actions in the administrative console. Seeing the commands can help you develop the command-line tools needed to administer the server from the wsadmin utility.
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to save command assistance data to the log file.Click
to enable JMX notifications.Using command assistance, you can view wsadmin scripting commands in the Jython language for the last action run in many pages in the administrative console.
If a command assistance link is listed in the help portlet, wsadmin commands exist for the last console action you completed, and command assistance is available for that action.
Examples of actions include a click on a button or a click on a link in the navigation bar, collection page, or detail page. Editing a form is not a user action and is not captured by command assistance.
The wsadmin scripting commands display in the Jython language in a secondary window. If you perform an administrative action after you launch the Administrative Scripting Commands window, the window automatically refreshes the command list to reflect the most recent console action.
When command assistance is unavailable in the help portlet: Some console actions do not have wsadmin commands directly associated with them. When the help portlet on the right side of the administrative console page does not have a command assistance link in it, no command assistance data is available for the last console action.
To use command assistance in the console, perform the following steps.
You have viewed wsadmin scripting commands from the administrative console, optionally logged the commands to a file, and optionally allowed command assistance to emit JMX notifications.