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6.6.3: Administering application servers (overview)

6.6.3: Administering application servers (overview)

An application server configuration provides information for starting and managing a server process to handle requests for enterprise applications and their components.

The WebSphere administrator configures one or more application servers with settings for:

  • Giving the server a unique name by which to manage it
  • Associating the server with a unique transport port
  • Specifying Java command line arguments and environment variables for starting the application server process
  • Enabling WebSphere security for the server
  • Associating the server with an operating system user ID and security group
  • Specifying how many times to try to start or ping the server before giving up
  • Specifying the process priority on the operating system
  • Defining standard in, standard error, standard out streams for the server runtime
  • Specifying a working directory
  • Conducting transactions
  • Specifying tracing of the server and its child components

Regenerating the WebSphere plug-in for the Web server

It is suggested you review the information about administering WebSphere plug-ins for Web servers, because you will need to regenerate the plug-in configuration each time you create a new application server.

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