This section focuses on using the wsadmin tool and commands to administer production environments and realistic
test environments, including post-installation and customization tasks for
administrators, deploying applications onto application servers, and
administering applications and their server environments.
Use the Administering applications and their environments section to use the administrative console to manage your configuration settings.
- Getting started with scripting
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Provides an introduction to WebSphere Application Server scripting and information about using the
wsadmin tool. Topics include information about the scripting languages and the scripting objects,
and instructions for starting the wsadmin tool.
- Using the script library to automate the application serving environment
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The script library provides Jython script procedures to assist in automating your environment. Use the sample scripts to manage applications, resources, servers, nodes, and clusters. You can also use the script procedures as examples to learn the Jython syntax.
- Administering applications
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You can use administrative scripts and the wsadmin tool to install, uninstall, and manage applications.
- Managing deployed applications
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Includes tasks to perform after the application is deployed. For example, starting and stopping applications,
checking status, modifying listener address ports, querying application state, configuring a shared library, and so on.
- Configuring servers and nodes
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Includes topics for configuring servers, such as creating a server, modifying and restarting the server,
configuring the Java virtual machine, disabling a component, disabling a service, and so on.
- Setting up intermediary services
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Use the wsadmin tool and the Jython scripting language to configure intermediary services, such as Web servers, proxy servers, and DataPower® appliances.
- Managing servers and nodes
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Includes tasks to use to manage servers. For example, stopping nodes, starting and stopping servers,
querying a server state, starting a listener port, and so on.
- Clustering servers
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You can use scripting and the wsadmin tool to cluster application servers, generic servers, Web servers, and proxy servers.
- Configuring security
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You can configure security with scripting and the wsadmin tool.
- Configuring data access
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Includes topics such as configuring a Java™ DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) provider, defining a data source,
configuring connection pools, and so on.
- Configuring messaging
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Use these topics to learn about configuring messaging with the wsadmin tool. You can configure the message listener service, Java™ Messaging Service settings, queue and connection factories, and WebSphere MQ settings.
- Configuring mail, URLs, and resource environment entries
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Use scripting to configure mail, URLs, and resource environment entries.
- Configuring Web services applications
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Includes tasks to use to configure Web services applications, publish a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file,
and so on.
- Using the Administration Thin Client
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With the Administration Thin Client, you can run the wsadmin tool or a standalone administrative Java™ program with only a couple of JAR files. This reduces the amount of time that it takes for the wsadmin tool to start and improved performance. This information should be used to set up JMX client programs.
- Troubleshooting
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Provides information about how to troubleshoot using scripting. For example, tracing, thread dumps, profiles, and so on.
- Scripting and command line reference material
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Use this topic to locate wsadmin tool commands for the AdminTask, AdminControl, AdminConfig, and AdminApp scripting objects. This topic also provides a pointer to command line commands and options.