This page describes the button choices that are available
on various pages of the administrative console, depending on which
product features you enable.
Select all items. Selects each
resource that is listed on the administrative console panel, in preparation
for performing an action against the selected resources.
-
Deselect all items. Removes
all the listed resources from each selection so that no action is
performed against any of the resources.
Show filter
function. Produces a dialog box for specifying the resources
to view in the table on this administrative console page.
Hide
filter function. 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 value. 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.
- Add Node. Displays
the Add Node page, in which you specify the host name and SOAP connector
port for a node that you want added to a cell.
- 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.
- Collapse all. Collapses all the expanded items.
- 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.
- Group or group members:
- 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.
- Java Management Extensions (JMX) connectors:
- Disables a connector.
- Disable Auto Start. Requires you to start the application
manually.
- Discard. Discards your local changes instead of saving
them to the master configuration.
- 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.
- Group or group members:
- Enables a group or a group member.
- Java Management Extensions (JMX) connectors:
- Enables a connector.
- Enable Auto Start. Starts an application automatically
when the server on which the application resides starts.
- Expand all. Expands all the collapsed items.
- 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.
- Force delete. Forces
the removal of a node that is not removed properly from the cell in
the master repository. The Remove node action is preferred
over the Force delete action to delete a node from the configuration.
If you click Force delete, but the node still exists in the
configuration, uninstall the node or run the removeNode command
by using the -force parameter on that node. Force delete action is
equivalent to running the cleanupNode command at the deployment manager.
- Full resynchronize. Synchronizes
the user's configuration immediately. Click full resynchronize on
the Nodes page if automatic configuration synchronization is disabled,
or if the synchronization interval is set to a long time, and a configuration
change is made to the cell repository that needs to be replicated
to that node. Clicking this option clears all synchronization optimization
settings and performs configuration synchronization again, so no
mismatches occur between node and cell configuration after this operation
is performed. This operation can take awhile to perform.
- 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
sign-on (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 runtime 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 to the local configuration 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.
- Reference shared libraries. Opens the collection of shared
library references available for use by your application or module.
If no references are available, a message is displayed stating that
there are no references.
- Refresh. Refreshes the view of data for instances that
are currently listed on this tabbed page.
- Regenerate
encryption key. Regenerates a key for global data replication.
If you are using the DES or TRIPLE_DES encryption type, regenerate
a key at regular intervals (for example, monthly) to enhance security.
- Remove. Deletes the selected item.
- Remove file. Removes the specified file from the selected
application or module.
- Remove node. Deletes
the selected node.
- Reset. Clears your changes on the tab or page and restores
the most recently saved values.
- Restart all
servers on node. Stops all application servers on the node and
starts them again. The node agent for the node is also stopped and
restarted.
- 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.
Use Rollout Update if the application is deployed on one
or more clusters spread across multiple nodes. This action reduces
the amount of time that any single cluster member is unavailable to
serve requests to the smallest interval possible. For a single node
environment, use Update and then save and synchronize the node
instead.
- 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. In the
context of nodes, stops servers on the selected nodes. In the context
of deployment managers, stops the deployment manager server.
- Synchronize. Synchronizes
the user's configuration immediately. Click Synchronize on the Nodes
page if automatic configuration synchronization is disabled, or if
the synchronization interval is set to a long time, and a configuration
change is made to the cell repository that needs replicating to that
node. A node synchronization operation is performed using the normal
synchronization optimization algorithm. This operation is fast, but
might not fix problems from manual file edits that occur on the node.
It is possible for the node and cell configuration to be out of synchronization
after this operation is performed. If problems persist, use Full
Resynchronize.
- 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.
- Test connection. After you define and save a data source,
you can select this option to ensure that the parameters in the data
source definition are correct. On the Collection panel, you can select
multiple data sources and test them simultaneously.
- Uninstall. Deletes
a deployed application from the WebSphere Application
Server configuration repository. Also deletes application binary
files from the file system.
- Update. For applications, 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.
For clusters, changes
the configured weight or runtime weight assigned to a cluster member.
- Update
resource list. Updates the data on a table. Discovers and adds
new instances to the table.
- Use cell
CSI. Enables Object Management Group (OMG) Common Secure Interoperability
(CSI) protocol.
- Use cell
SAS. Enables IBM® Secure Authentication Service (SAS).
- Use cell
Security. Enables cell security.
- Verify
tables. Validates the mapping between the table names, scheduler
resource, and data sources.
- View. Opens a dialog on a file.