The product provides a variety of administrative clients
for deploying and administering your applications and application
serving environment, including configurations and logical administrative
domains.
Procedure
- Use the administrative console.
The administrative console is a graphical, browser-based tool.
- Use wsadmin scripting.
Scripting is a non-graphical alternative that you can use to configure and administer your
applications and application serving environment. The WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin tool provides
the ability to run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full range of product administrative
activities.
See also Configuring Qshell
to run WebSphere scripts using wsadmin scripting.
- Use Ant to automate tasks.
To support using Apache Ant with Java™ Platform, Enterprise
Edition (Java EE) applications running on IBM®
WebSphere
Application Server, the product provides a copy of the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks that extend
the capabilities of Ant to include product-specific functions.
- Use administrative programs
(JMX).
The product supports access to the administrative functions through a set of Java classes and methods, under the Java
Management Extensions (JMX) specification. You can write a Java program that performs any of the administrative features of the other administrative
clients. You also can extend the basic product administrative system to include your own managed
resources.
- Use command-line tools.