The WebSphere® Customization
Toolbox include tools for managing, configuring, and migrating various
parts of your WebSphere Application
Server environment.
About this task
The WebSphere Customization
Toolbox contains the Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool, Profile
Management Tool (z/OS® only), z/OS Migration Management Tool,
and Remote Installation Tool for IBM® i.
- Use the Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool to configure your
web server plug-ins for any operating system on which the WebSphere Customization Toolbox
can be installed.
- Launch the Profile Management Tool (z/OS only)
on a Windows or Linux operating system to generate jobs and
instructions for creating profiles for WebSphere Application Server on z/OS systems.
- Launch the z/OS Migration
Management Tool on a Windows or Linux operating system to generate
definitions for migrating WebSphere Application
Server for z/OS profiles.
- Use the Remote Installation Tool for IBM i
to install IBM Installation
Manager or a WebSphere Application
Server product offering from a Windows workstation
to a remote target IBM i system.
Note: When you install a WebSphere Application
Server full-profile offering on a distributed operating system, the
program automatically installs two additional tools into the WebSphere Customization Toolbox
on that system:
- Configuration Migration Tool for distributed operating systems
- Profile Management Tool for distributed operating systems
Procedure
Perform one of the following procedures:
- Install and use the following tools.
- Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool
The Web Server Plug-ins
Configuration Tool allows you to configure your web server plug-ins
on distributed and Windows operating
systems.
- Profile Management Tool (z/OS only)
The
Profile Management Tool (z/OS only)
allows you to build and process definitions for creating WebSphere Application Server profiles.
Processing
the definitions results in the generation of customization jobs that
you then run on the z/OS system.
You can upload directly to the z/OS system
as you process a definition, or you can save it locally and upload
it to the z/OS system later.
- z/OS Migration Management
Tool
The z/OS Migration Management
Tool allows you to build and process definitions for migrating WebSphere Application Server
profiles.
Processing the definitions results in the generation
of customization jobs that you then run on the z/OS system. You can upload directly to the z/OS system as you process a definition,
or you can save it locally and upload it to the z/OS system later.
- Remote Installation Tool for IBM i
The
Remote Installation Tool for IBM i
is a command-line utility for installing WebSphere Application Server product offerings
from a Windows machine to
a remote machine running the IBM i
operating system.
- Use the WCT command to invoke the pct
tool to configure your web server plug-ins on distributed and Windows operating systems.
What to do next
Restriction: You cannot use some combinations
of the GUI customization tools for IBM WebSphere Application Server
Version 8.5 concurrently.
- You cannot have the following two tools or two instances of either
tool open at the same time:
- Profile Management Tool for distributed operating systems
- Configuration Migration Tool for distributed operating systems
- You cannot have two of the following tools within the WebSphere Customization Toolbox
or two instances of any one tool open at the same time:
- Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool
- Profile Management Tool (z/OS only),
which runs on Intel-based Windows or Linux operating systems
- z/OS Migration Management
Tool, which runs on Intel-based Windows or Linux operating systems
You can use one tool from one of these two sets and one tool
from the other set at the same time.