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Administrative Console

The administrative console is a graphical interface that allows you to manage your applications and perform system administration tasks for your WebSphere® Application Server environment. The administrative console runs in your web browser. Your actions in the console modify a set of XML configuration files.

You can use the administrative console to perform tasks such as:

Add, delete, start, and stop application servers

Deploy new applications to a server

Start and stop existing applications, and modify certain configurations

Add and delete Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) resource providers for applications that require data access, mail, URLs, and so on

Manage variables, shared libraries, and other configurations that can span multiple application servers

Configure product security, including access to the administrative console

Collect data for performance and troubleshooting purposes

Find the product version information. It is located on the front page of the console.

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Introduction: Administrative console

Starting and logging off the administrative console

You must first start the WebSphere process or server that has the isclite WebSphere Admin Console application installed.
In your browser, to launch the WebSphere Admin Console, you would type the following URL:

http://your_fully_qualified_server_name:port_number/ibm/console

Where <your_fully_qualified_server_name> is the fully qualified host name for the machine that contains the administrative server, and <port_number> is the (non-secure) administrative console port number.

If security is enabled, your request is redirected to

https://your_fully_qualified_server_name:port_number/ibm/console

Where <your_fully_qualified_server_name> is the fully qualified host name for the machine that contains the administrative server, and <port_number> is the administrative console secure port number.

For example, if the server name is www.myexampleserver.com, the unsecure console URL might be:

http://www.myexampleserver.com:9060/ibm/console

https://www.myexampleserver.com:9043/ibm/console

If the default port numbers are used.

When the administrative console is on the local machine, <your_fully_qualified_server_name> can be localhost unless security is enabled. On Windows platforms, use the actual host name if localhost is not recognized. The port number differs, depending upon whether the URL is for an unsecure or secure console, the profile type, or the number of profiles in the installation.

Troubleshooting

MustGather: Administrative console problems in WebSphere Application Server

Administration and administrative console troubleshooting

Video: How do I disable security in WAS when I cannot access the administrative console?

The Navigation menu is no longer available in WAS admin console (ISC)

Navigation Panel is missing after logging into the Admin Console. Restoring the console application using the iscdeploy script does not fix the issue.

Error404 on right side of the Websphere Admin console

How to resolve the Null exception displayed in the left navigation pane in the WebSphere Admin Console ?

Why do I get ADMA5023E when trying to view application modules from admin console?

Guides

How can I lengthen the timeout value for the WebSphere Administrative Console application ?

Installing and uninstalling the administrative console

Administrative roles

Console preferences settings

Console identity string

Community

When logging into the admin console on Windows, the right hand side is blank. The log shows: ServletWrappe E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper service SRVE0068E: An exception was thrown by one of the service methods of the servlet [/secure/layouts/PreferencesLayout.jsp] in application [isclite]. Exception created : [java.lang.NullPointerException

After I log into the WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.3 Admin Console, I only see the welcome page, and the left-side menu navigation and the main page are all blank. I got the “SystemErr R java.lang.Exception: /features directory does not exist or is not a directory, read features failed…” error in the systemErr.log file.

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