This page describes the button choices that are available on various
pages of the administrative console, depending on which product features you
enable.
Check
all. Selects each resource that is listed on the administrative
console panel, in preparation for performing an action against the selected
resources.
- Uncheck all.
Removes all the listed resources from each selection so that no
action is performed against any of the resources.
Filter the view. Produces a dialog box for specifying the
resources to view in the table on this administrative console page.
Hide
the filter view. Hides the dialog box for specifying the resources to
view in the table on this administrative console page.
When you produce
the dialog box, select the column to filter and enter the filter criteria.
- Column to filter
- Select the column to filter from the drop-down list. When you apply the
filter, only those items in the selected column that meet the filter criteria
are displayed.
For example, select Names to enter criteria by which
to filter application server names.
- Filter criteria
- Enter a string that must be found in the name of a collection entry to
qualify the entry to display in the collection table. The string can contain
percent sign (%), asterisk (*), or question mark (?) symbols as wildcard characters.
For example, enter *App* to find any application server whose name
contains the string App.
Prefix each of the following
characters ( ) ^ * % { } \ + $ with a backslash (\) so
that the regular expression engine performing the search correctly matches
the search criteria. For example, to search for all Java DataBase Connectivity
(JDBC) providers containing (XA) in the provider name, specify
the following string:
*\(XA\)
Clear
filter criteria. Clears your filter changes and restores the most recently
saved values.
- Abort. Stops a transaction that is not yet in the prepared state.
All operations that the transaction completed are undone.
- Activate. Activates a group member.
- Add. Adds the selected or typed item to a list, or produces a dialog
for adding an item to a list.
- Apply. Saves your changes to a page without exiting the page.
- Back. Displays the previous page or item in a sequence. The administrative
console does not support using the Back and Forward options of a browser,
which can cause intermittent problems. Use Back or Cancel on the administrative
console panels instead.
- Balance. Balances active members in high availability groups across
servers that host the high availability groups. The administrator must first
determine which groups have active members and select those groups before
selecting Balance.
- Browse. Opens a dialog that enables you to look for a file on your
system.
- Calculate groups. Calculates the number of high availability groups
that are returned based on the match set.
- Cancel. Exits the current page or dialog, discarding unsaved changes.
The administrative console does not support using the Back and Forward options
of a browser, which can cause intermittent problems. Use Cancel on the administrative
console panels instead.
- Change. In the context of security, you can search the user registry
for a user ID for an application to run under. In the context of container
properties, you can change the data source that the container is using.
- Clear. Clears your changes and restores the most recently saved
values.
- Clear selections. Clears any selected cells in the tables on this
tabbed page.
- Close. Exits the dialog.
- Commit. Releases all locks that are held by a prepared transaction
and forces the transaction to commit.
- Copy. Creates copies of the selected application servers.
- Create. Saves your changes to all the tabbed pages in a dialog
and exits the dialog.
- Create tables. Develops scheduler database tables.
- Deactivate. Deactivates a group member. The group member must be
in the active state to be deactivated. The deactivate option causes the group
member to move to the idle state. The group policy overrides which members
are activated and deactivated for a group. The policy is enforced for every
member state change. If the deactivate option conflicts with the group policy,
the policy resets who is the active member of the group.
- Delete. Removes the selected instance.
- Details. Shows the details about a transaction.
- Disable. Disables a group or group member. When you disable a
group or group member, the active group or group member is first deactivated.
If the deactivate option is successful, the group or group member moves to
the disable state. A disabled group or group member cannot be activated.
- Done. Saves your changes to all the tabbed pages in a dialog and
exits the dialog.
- Down. Moves through a list.
- Drop tables. Removes scheduler database tables.
- Dump. Activates a dump of a traced application server.
- Edit. Lets you edit the selected item in a list, or produces a
dialog box for editing the item.
- Enable. Enables a group or a group member.
- Export. Accesses a page for exporting enterprise archive (EAR)
files for an enterprise application.
- Export DDL. Accesses a page for exporting data definition language
(DDL) files for an enterprise application.
- Export Keys. Exports Lightweight Third-Party Authentication (LTPA)
keys to other domains.
- Export route table. Exports the route table information for a selected
cluster to a binary file in the configuration.
- Filter. Produces a dialog box for specifying the resources to
view in the tables on this tabbed page.
- Finish. Forces a transaction to finish, regardless of whether
its outcome has been reported to all participating applications.
- First. Displays the first record in a series of records.
- Generate keys. Generates new LTPA keys. When security is turned
on for the first time with LTPA as the authentication mechanism, LTPA keys
are automatically generated with the password entered in the panel. To generated
new keys, use this option after the server is up with security turned on.
Clicking this option generates the keys and propagates them to all active
servers (cell, node, and application servers). The new keys can be used to
encrypt and decrypt the LTPA tokens. Click Save on the console taskbar
to save the new keys and the password in the repository.
- Immediate stop. Stops the server, but bypasses the normal server
quiesce process that supports in-flight requests to complete before shutting
down the entire server process. This shutdown mode is faster than the normal
server stop processing, but some application clients can receive exceptions.
- Import keys. Imports new LTPA keys from other domains. To support
single signon (SSO) in WebSphere Application Server across multiple WebSphere
domains (cells), share LTPA keys and a password among the domains. After
exporting the keys from one of the cells into a file, click this option to
import the keys into all the active servers (cell, node, and application
servers). The new keys can be used to encrypt and decrypt the LTPA token.
Click Save on the console taskbar to save the new keys and the password
in the repository.
- Install. Displays the Preparing for application installation page,
which you use to deploy an application, an enterprise bean, or a Web component
onto an application server.
- Install RAR. Opens a dialog that is used to install a Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition Connector Architecture (JCA) connector and to create a
resource adapter.
- Manage state. Displays a list of MBeans that corresponds to your
previous selection of data source or connection factory configurations. You
can apply JCA lifecycle management operations to these MBeans to control the
run-time status of the corresponding resources.
- Manage transactions. Displays a list of active transactions running
on a server. You can forcibly finish any transaction that has stopped processing
because a transactional resource is not available.
- Modify. Opens a dialog that is used to change a specification.
- Move. Moves the selected application servers to a different location
in the administrative cell. When prompted, specify the target location.
- Move down. Moves downward through a list.
- Move up. Moves upward through a list.
- New. Displays a page that you use to define a new instance. For
example, clicking New on the Application Servers page displays a page
on which you can configure a new application server.
- Next. Displays the next page, frame, or item in a sequence.
- OK. Saves your changes and exits the page.
- Pause. In the context of JCA lifecycle management, stops all outbound
communication that is conducted through a resource on a specified server to
a backend.
- Ping. Attempts to contact selected application servers.
- Previous. Displays the previous page, frame, or item in a sequence.
- Quit. Exits a dialog box and discards any unsaved changes.
- Refresh. Refreshes the view of data for instances that are currently
listed on this tabbed page.
- Remove. Deletes the selected item.
- Remove file. Removes the specified file from the selected application
or module.
- Reset. Clears your changes on the tab or page and restores the
most recently saved values.
- Restart. Stops
the selected objects and starts them again.
- Resume. In the context of JCA lifecycle management, restarts the
activity of a data source or a connection factory that was paused
by a previous JCA lifecycle management operation.
- Retrieve new. Retrieves a new record.
- Rollout update. Sequentially updates an application that is installed
on multiple cluster members across a cluster. After you update application
files or a configuration, click Rollout update to install the configuration
or the updated files for an application on all the cluster members of a cluster
on which the application is installed. The Rollout update option applies the
following steps to each cluster member in sequence:
- Saves an updated configuration.
- Stops the cluster member.
- Updates the application on the node by synchronizing the configuration.
- Restarts the cluster member.
This action enables you to update an application on multiple cluster
members while providing continuous availability of the application.
- Save. Saves the changes in your local configuration to the master
configuration.
- Select. For resource analysis, lets you select a scope in which
to monitor resources.
- Set. Saves your changes to settings in a dialog.
- Settings. Displays a dialog for editing servlet-related resource
settings.
- Settings in use. Displays a dialog showing the settings in use.
- Show groups. Displays a collection of high availability groups,
based on the match set.
- Show servers. Displays a collection of servers that are contained
in the high availability groups that match the match set.
- Start. In the context of application servers, starts selected application
servers. In the context of data collection, starts collecting data for the
tables on this tabbed page.
- Stop. In the context of server components such as application servers,
stops the selected server components. In the context of a data collection,
stops collecting data for the tables on a tabbed page.
- Terminate. Deletes the Application Server process or another process
that cannot be stopped by the Stop or Immediate Stop commands.
Some application clients can receive exceptions. Always attempt an immediate
stop before using this option.
- Uninstall. Deletes a deployed application from the WebSphere Application
Server configuration repository. Also deletes application binary files from
the file system.
- Update. Replaces an application that is deployed on a server with
an updated application. As part of the updating, you might need to complete
steps on the Preparing for application installation and Update application
pages.
- Update resource list. Updates the data on a table. Discovers and
adds new instances to the table.
- Verify tables. Validates the mapping between the table names, scheduler
resource, and data sources.
- View. Opens a dialog on a file.