The scripting library provides Jython script procedures
to assist in automating your environment. Use the server management
scripts to configure servers, the server runtime environment, Web
containers, performance monitoring, and logs. You can also use the
scripts to administer your servers.
About this task
The scripting library provides a set of procedures
to automate the most common application server administration functions.
There are three ways to use the Jython script library.
- Run scripts from the Jython script library in interactive mode
with the wsadmin tool. You can launch the wsadmin tool, and run individual
scripts that are included in the script library using the following
syntax:
wsadmin>AdminServerManagement.createApplicationServer("myNode", "myServer", "default")
- Use a text editor to combine several scripts from the Jython script
library, as the following sample displays:
#
# My Custom Jython Script - file.py
#
AdminServerManagement.createApplicationServer("myNode", "Server1", "default")
AdminServerManagement.createApplicationServer("myNode", "Server2", "default")
# Use one of them as the first member of a cluster
AdminClusterManagement.createClusterWithFirstMember("myCluster", "APPLICATION_SERVER",
"myNode", "Server1")
# Add a second member to the cluster
AdminClusterManagement.createClusterMember("myCluster", "myNode", "Server3")
# Install an application
AdminApplication.installAppWithClusterOption("DefaultApplication",
"..\installableApps\DefaultApplication.ear", "myCluster")
# Start all servers and applications on the node
AdminServerManagement.startAllServers("myNode")
Save the custom script and run it from the command line,
as the following syntax demonstrates:bin>wsadmin -language jython -f path/to/your/jython/file.py
- Use the Jython scripting library code as sample syntax to write
custom scripts. Each script example in the script library demonstrates
best practices for writing wsadmin scripts. The script library code
is located in the app_server_root/scriptLibraries directory.
Within this directory, the scripts are organized into subdirectories
according to functionality. For example, the app_server_root/scriptLibraries/application/V70 subdirectory
contains procedures that perform application management tasks that
are applicable to Version 7.0 and later of the product. The subdirectory
V70 in the script library paths does not mean the scripts in that
subdirectory are Version 7.0 scripts.
The
AdminServerManagement procedures in scripting library are located
in the
app_server_root/scriptLibraries/servers/V70
subdirectory. Each script from the directory automatically loads when
you launch the wsadmin tool. To automatically load your own Jython
scripts (*.py) when the wsadmin tool starts, create a new subdirectory
and save existing automation scripts under the
app_server_root/scriptLibraries
directory.
Best practice: To create custom scripts using
the scripting library procedures, save the modified scripts to a new
subdirectory to avoid overwriting the library. Do not edit the script
procedures in the scripting library.
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You can use the
AdminServerManagement.py scripts to perform multiple combinations
of administration functions. Use the following steps to create an
application server, connect the application server to the AdminService
interface, configure Java virtual
machine (JVM) settings, add the application server to a cluster, and
propagate the changes to the node.
Procedure
- Optional: Launch the wsadmin tool.
Use
this step to launch the wsadmin tool and connect to a server, job
manager, or administrative agent profile, or run the tool in local
mode. If you launch the wsadmin tool, use the interactive mode examples
to run scripts.
When the wsadmin tool launches, the system
loads all scripts from the scripting library.
- Create an application server.
Run the createApplicationServer
script procedure from the AdminServerManagement script library, as
the following example demonstrates:
bin>wsadmin -lang jython -c "AdminServerManagement.createApplicationServer("myNode", "myServer", "default")"
You
can also use interactive mode to run the script procedure, as the
following example demonstrates:
wsadmin>AdminServerManagement.createApplicationServer("myNode", "myServer", "default")
- Connect the application server of interest to the AdminService
interface.
The AdminService interface is the server
interface to the application server administration functions. To connect
the application server to the AdminService interface, run the configureAdminService
script procedure from the AdminServerManagement script library, specifying
the node name, server name, and connector type arguments, as the following
example demonstrates:
bin>wsadmin -lang jython -c "AdminServerManagement.configureAdminService("myNode", "myServer",
"IPC", "JSR160RMI")
You can also use
interactive mode to run the script procedure, as the following example
demonstrates:
wsadmin>AdminServerManagement.configureAdminService("myNode", "myServer", "IPC", "JSR160RMI")
- Configure the Java virtual
machine (JVM).
As part of configuring an application
server, you might define settings that enhance the way your operating
system uses of the JVM. The JVM is an interpretive computing engine
responsible for running the byte codes in a compiled Java program. The JVM translates the Java byte codes into the native instructions
of the host machine. The application server, being a Java process, requires a JVM in order to run,
and to support the Java applications running on it.
Run
the configureJavaVirtualMachine script procedure from the AdminServerManagement
script library, specifying the node name, server name, whether to
run the JVM in debug mode, and any debug arguments to pass to the
JVM process. You can optionally specify additional configuration attributes
with an attribute list. Use the following example to configure the
JVM:
bin>wsadmin -lang jython -c "AdminServerManagement.configureJavaVirtualMachine("myNode",
"myServer", "true", "mydebug", [["internalClassAccessMode", "RESTRICT"],
["disableJIT", "false"], ["verboseModeJNI", "false"]])"
You
can also use interactive mode to run the script procedure, as the
following example demonstrates:
wsadmin>AdminServerManagement.configureJavaVirtualMachine("myNode", "myServer", "true",
"mydebug", [["internalClassAccessMode", "RESTRICT"],
["disableJIT", "false"], ["verboseModeJNI", "false"]])
- Create a cluster, and add the application server as a cluster
member.
Run the createClusterWithFirstMember script
procedure from the AdminClusterManagement script library, as the following
example demonstrates:
bin>wsadmin -lang jython -c "AdminClusterManagement.createClusterWithFirstMember("myCluster",
"APPLICATION_SERVER", "myNode", "myServer")"
wsadmin>AdminClusterManagement.createClusterWithFirstMember("myCluster", "APPLICATION_SERVER",
"myNode", "myServer")
Results
The wsadmin script libraries return the same output
as the associated wsadmin commands. For example, the AdminServerManagement.listServers()
script returns a list of available servers. The AdminClusterManagement.checkIfClusterExists()
script returns a value of true if the cluster exists, or false if
the cluster does not exist. If the command does not return the expected
output, the script libraries return a 1 value when the script successfully
runs. If the script fails, the script libraries return a -1 value
and an error message with the exception.
By default, the system
disables failonerror option. To enable this option, specify
true as
the last argument for the script procedure, as the following example
displays:
wsadmin>AdminApplication.startApplicationOnCluster("myApplication","myCluster","true")
What to do next
Create custom scripts to automate your environment by
combining script procedures from the scripting library. Save custom
scripts to a new subdirectory of the app_server_root/scriptLibraries
directory.