The product provides a variety of administrative clients for deploying
and administering your applications and application serving environment, including
configurations and logical administrative domains.
- Using the administrative console
The administrative console is a graphical, browser-based tool.
- Getting started with scripting
Scripting is a non-graphical alternative that you can use to configure
and administer your applications and application serving environment. The
WebSphere Application Server wsadmin tool provides the ability to
run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full range of product administrative
activities.
- Using Ant to automate tasks
To
support using Apache Ant with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications
running on IBM WebSphere Application Server, the product provides a copy of
the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks that extend the capabilities of Ant to
include product-specific functions.
- Using administrative programs (JMX)
The product supports access to the administrative functions through
a set of Java classes and methods, under the Java Management Extensions (JMX)
specification. You can write a Java program that performs any of the administrative
features of the other administrative clients. You also can extend the basic
product administrative system to include your own managed resources.
- Using command line tools
Several command-line tools are available that you can use to start,
stop, and monitor WebSphere server processes and nodes. These tools work on
local servers and nodes only. They cannot operate on a remote server or node.