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.
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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.
- 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.
- Browse.
Opens a dialog that enables you to look for a file on your system.
- 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 produce 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.
- 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.
- Remove. Deletes the selected item.
- Remove file. Removes the specified file from
the selected application or module.
- Reset. Clears your changes on the tab or page
and restores the most recently saved values.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Update
resource list. Updates the data on a table. Discovers and
adds new instances to the table.
- Verify
tables. Validates the mapping between the table names, scheduler
resource, and data sources.
- View. Opens a dialog on a file.