Product GUIs and tools
IBM WebSphere Application Server provides a variety of graphical and non-graphical
user interfaces. The product GUIs are described, as well as some key scripting
and command-line tools. For a complete list of available commands, and for
more information about commands, see the section, Command-line syntax in
the Reference view of the information center.
Tools for installing, upgrading, and migrating
- First Steps
- A desktop GUI from which you can start or stop the Application Server.
It also provides access to the administrative console. See firststeps command.
- Launch Pad
- A graphical interface for launching the product installation. It also
provides links to information you might need for installation. See Using the Launchpad to start the installation.
- Installation wizard
- A graphical interface that leads you through the process of installing
the product.
- Migration tools
- Command-line tools are available to help you migrate from a previous product
version.
Tools for developing applications
IBM WebSphere
Application Server is not an application development tool. The WebSphere Studio
Application Developer product line offers development environments and tools
that complement each edition of the Application Server. For more information,
see Product family overview.
Tools for deploying and administering
As described
in Deploying, deploying
involves putting an application onto a particular server.
- Systems administration tools
- See Welcome to System Administration for
a description of the available systems administration tools, including the
graphical WebSphere Administrative Console, the WSAdmin scripting client,
and an assortment of special purpose command line tools.
- LaunchClient command
- This command line tool starts application clients. See launchClient tool.
- NameSpaceDump tool
- This command line interface displays the IBM WebSphere Application Server
name space for debugging purposes. See dumpNameSpace tool.
Tools for monitoring and tuning
- PMI request metrics in WebSphere Administrative Console
- This tool collects data by timing requests as the requests travel through
components of the product. The PMI request metrics are configurable through
the administrative console. The PMI request metrics log time spent in major
components, such as the Web container of the Application Server. These data
points are recorded in logs and can be written to Application Response Time
(ARM) agents used by Tivoli monitoring tools.
- Tivoli Performance Viewer
- This stand-alone program that monitors and analyzes Application Server
data. The Tivoli Performance Viewer is built on the Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure (PMI) client API, which also is exposed to third-party development
tools. For more information, see Monitoring performance with Tivoli Performance Viewer (formerly Resource Analyzer) and Performance Monitoring Infrastructure .
Tools for troubleshooting
- Application Server Toolkit
- Included with IBM WebSphere Application Server, but on a separately installable
CD, this kit includes debugging functionality that is built on the Eclipse
workbench. See Debugging with the Application Server Toolkit.
- Collector tool
- The Collector Tool gathers information about your WebSphere Application
Server installation and packages it in a JAR file that can be sent to IBM
Customer Support to assist in problem determination and analysis. For more
information, see Gathering information with the Collector tool.
- Log Analyzer
- The Log Analyzer takes one or more service or activity logs, merges all
of the data, and displays the entries. Based on its symptom database, it analyzes
and interprets the error conditions in the log entries to help you debug problems.
Log Analyzer has a special feature enabling it to download the latest symptom
database from the IBM Web site. For more
information, see Log Analyzer.
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