Starting and stopping the administrative console

Why and when to perform this task

To access the administrative console, you must start it and then log in. After you finish working in the console, save your work and log out.

Steps for this task

  1. Start the administrative console.
    1. Verify that the administrative console runs on the server1 application server for the WebSphere base product. Verify that the administrative console runs on the deployment manager (dmgr) application server for the WebSphere Network Deployment product. Use the wasadmin startManager command to start the deployment manager.
    2. Enable cookies in the Web browser that you use to access the administrative console in order for the administrative console to work correctly.
    3. In the same Web browser, type http://your_fully_qualified_server_name:9090/admin where your_fully_qualified_server_name is the fully qualified host name for the machine that contains the administrative server. When the administrative console is on the local machine, your_fully_qualified_server_name can be localhost. On Windows platforms, use the actual host name if localhost is not recognized. If security is enabled, your request is redirected to https://your_fully_qualified_server_name:9043/admin where your_fully_qualified_server_name is the full qualified host name for the machine that contains the administrative server.

      For a listing of supported Web browsers, see WebSphere Application Server detailed system requirements .

    4. Wait for the console to load into the browser.

    If you cannot start the administrative console because the console port conflicts with an application already running on the machine, change the port number in the

    install_root/config/cells/cell_name/
    nodes/node_name/servers/server_name/server.xml
    and install_root/config/cells/cell_name/virtualhosts.xml files. Change all occurrences of port 9090 (or whatever port was selected during installation of WebSphere Application Server) to the desired port for the console. Alternatively, shut down the other application that uses the conflicting port before starting the WebSphere Application Server product.

    Note: The directory path for the server.xml file appears on two lines for printing purposes.

  2. A Login page appears after the console starts. Log into the console.
    1. Enter your user name (or user ID).

      Changes made to server configurations are saved to the user ID. Server configurations also are saved to the user ID if there is a session timeout.

      A user ID lasts for the duration of the session for which it was used to log in. If you enter an ID that is already in use (and in session), you are prompted to do one of the following:

      • Force the existing user ID out of session. The configuration file used by the existing user ID is saved in the temp area.
      • Wait for the existing user ID to log out or time out of the session.
      • Specify a different user ID.

    2. If the console is secure, you must also enter a password for the user name. The console is secure if someone has done the following things for the console:
    3. Click OK.
  3. Stop the administrative console. Click Save on the console taskbar to save work that you have done and then click Logout to exit the console.

    Note that if you close the browser before saving your work, when you next log in under the same user ID, you can recover any unsaved changes.

What to do next

Note to Linux users:

If you have difficulty using the administrative console on Linux, try using the Netscape Communicator 7.1 browser based on Mozilla 1.0. The browser release is not officially supported by the WebSphere Application Server product but users have been able to access the console successfully with it.


Related tasks
Using the administrative console
Related reference
Login settings



Searchable topic ID:   trun_startstop
Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 4:55:42 PM CDT    WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 5.0.2
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