This topic highlights what is new or changed, for users who are going to customize, administer, monitor, and tune production server environments using the wsadmin tool.
The biggest improvements and changes for scripted administration can be summarized as follows.
Deprecated and removed features describes features that are being replaced or removed in this or future releases.
Growing set of administrative commands | Automation of administrative tasks is made easier through the AdminTask scripting object of wsadmin. Many of the more involved tasks for administration have been implemented using this new feature which supports interactive execution and combines many individual scripting commands into a single task oriented command. Various AdminTask commands are implemented for important administrative scenarios such as server management, cluster management and resource management. AdminTask commands provide various user friendly and task oriented wsadmin commands. AdminTask commands may have multiple steps for some complicated administrative tasks similar to the wizard in the console. AdminTask commands are grouped based on their function areas. The AdminApp, AdminConfig, and AdminControl objects have also been enhanced with new functionality. For more information about the scripting
objects for the wsadmin tool, see the following topics:
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Improved help with administrative commands | Detailed help information for AdminTask commands and command groups is available through various AdminTask help commands. All AdminTask commands can be executed in interactive mode, which leads users step by step, interactively. At the end of execution, the corresponding AdminTask command is generated to help you learn the AdminTask command syntax. |