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Managing middleware servers
To define middleware servers, you can use middleware server templates and middleware descriptors. To manage middleware servers that are defined, you can view your middleware server log files and configuration files and configure server operations to run on your middleware servers.
Before you begin
You can configure middleware descriptors before or after you add your middleware servers.
Procedure
- Configure middleware descriptors. If discovery applies to your specific platform, middleware descriptors provide information about your middleware platform, such as the installation location and the interval at which an installation can be discovered. For more information, read about configuring middleware descriptors.
- Define middleware server templates. By creating a middleware server template, you copy all of the configuration data for that server so that you can create other servers from the template. If you have many middleware servers with a similar configuration, middleware server templates can make this configuration easier. For more information, read about creating middleware server templates.
- Configure middleware server operations. Use wsadmin scripting to configure middleware server operations, or use the administrative console. Middleware operations can perform tasks such as enabling or disabling tracing, starting or stopping servers, or querying the running state of the server. For more information, read about configuring middleware server operations.
- View and edit configuration files for your middleware servers. You can specify the path for the configuration files that you want to view or edit in the administrative console. For more information, read about viewing middleware server configuration files.
- Configure the external log viewing service. With the external log viewing service, you can view the log files from your middleware servers in the administrative console. For more information, read about configuring the external log viewing service.