Administering IBM® WebSphere® ESB involves preparing, monitoring, and modifying the environment into which Service Component Architecture (SCA) modules are deployed as applications and resources, and working with the applications and resources themselves.
For more information about administering WebSphere ESB, see "Administering WebSphere ESB."
WebSphere ESB offers several interfaces for administering the runtime environment:
The administrative console is a browser-based interface where you can monitor, update, stop, and start a wide variety of applications, services, and resources for the applications running on WebSphere ESB. The administrative console can also be used to work with relationships and to locate and resolve failed WebSphere ESB events.
The administrative console also provide administration capabilities for WebSphere Application Server and other customer-defined products. The WebSphere ESB administrative console is part of the Integrated Solutions Console framework in general, and the WebSphere Application Server administrative console in particular. As a result, many administrative tasks (for example, setting security, viewing logs, and installing applications) are the same for both WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Application Server.
Command-line tools are simple programs that you run from an operating system command-line prompt to perform specific tasks. Using these tools, you can start and stop application servers, check server status, add or remove nodes, and other tasks. The WebSphere ESB command-line tools include the serviceDeploy command, which processes .jar, .ear, .war and .rar files exported from a WebSphere Integration Developer environment and prepares them for installation to the production server.
The wsadmin scripting program is a non-graphical command interpreter environment that enables you to run administrative options in a scripting language and to submit scripting language programs for execution. It supports the same tasks as the administrative console. The wsadmin tool is intended for production environments and unattended operations.
A set of Java™ classes and methods under the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification provide support for administering Service Component Architecture (SCA) and business objects. Each programming interface includes a description of its purpose, an example that demonstrates how to use the interface or class, and references to the individual method descriptions.
Business Process Choreographer Explorer is a stand-alone Web application that provides a basic set of administration functions for managing business processes and human tasks. You can view information about process templates, process instances, task instances, and their associated objects. You can also act on these objects; for example, you can start new process instances, repair and restart failed activities, manage work items, and delete completed process instances and task instances.
Business Process Choreographer Explorer also includes an optional reporting function. You can use Process Choreographer Explorer reporting function to create reports on processes that have been completed. You can then use these reports to evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of your processes and activities. You can also use the reporting function to view the status of running processes.
The business rules manager is a Web-based tool that assists the business analyst in browsing and modifying business rule values. The tool is an option of WebSphere ESB that you can select to install at profile creation time or after the initial installation of the server.