Managing environment configurations with properties files using wsadmin scripting
Use this topic to modify your environment using properties files. You can use the wsadmin tool to generate, validate and apply properties files in your application server, profile, node, or other resource configurations.
About this task
Using the PropertiesBasedConfiguration command group for
the AdminTask object, you can extract the configuration attributes
and values from your environment to properties files. You can use
this functionality for various purposes, including:
- To modify your existing configuration in one location, instead of configuring multiple administrative console panels or running many commands
- To improve the application development life cycle
- Application servers
- Nodes
- Profiles
- Virtual hosts
- Authorization tables
- Data replication domains
- Variable maps
- Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC) providers
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL) providers
- Mail providers
- Resource environment providers
- Java™ 2 Connector (J2C) resource adapters

Complete the following steps to extract a properties
file for an application server, edit the properties, and apply them
to your configuration. You can also use interactive mode with these
commands, as the following syntax demonstrates:
AdminTask.commandName('-interactive')
Procedure
Modify an application server configuration, and apply the
changes using a properties file.