The table summarizes choices available on the right-click menus of
folders or items in the tree view.
Some actions are not available for certain folders or items, or can become
temporarily unavailable due to the state of the selection. For example,
if a server is already stopped, its Stop action will be
unavailable.
Action |
Result |
Clone |
Displays a Create Clone dialog for defining a new clone for a server group.
This option is available for a server group as part of the right-click menu
choice New -> Clone. |
Create Server Group |
Displays a Create Server Group task wizard for defining a new server group
or for defining one based on an existing server.
The wizard can be used to set values for some server group properties.
To view or change all properties, the server group
properties dialog can be used. |
Export Application |
Displays an Export Application dialog for specifying a node and directory to
which an enterprise application should be exported. The application is saved as
an EAR file. |
Export Binding |
Displays a dialog for specifying the exporting destination of binding files.
Binding files contain location information needed to resolve external references
for an application or module. For example, binding information is needed to
map an external resource from its logical name (in the deployment descriptor) to
its actual JNDI name. |
Export Table DDL |
Displays an Export Table DDL dialog for specifying a node and directory
to which table DDL files should be exported.
This action is only enabled for EJB modules containing container managed
persistence (CMP) beans and for Web modules that use EJB modules containing
CMP beans. |
Find |
Displays a Find dialog for compiling a list of all objects that
have the same object type as the selection. |
Force Stop |
Stops the resource when the regular Stop action is ineffective. Use
the option when the administrative server or other resource is in a
strange state and cannot be stopped using the ordinary Stop action. |
Install Enterprise Application |
Displays an Application Installation task wizard for installing an
application (EAR file) or module (JAR or WAR file). |
Move |
Displays a dialog for moving an EAR file to a node that contains the
destination server or server group. If a server group is named as the
destination, then the EAR file is copied to all nodes that contain the
clones of the server group.
Manual steps are required. Please see "Moving EJB
modules to other application servers."
This option is only available to EJB modules or Web modules. The EAR
file containing the EJB or Web module is the EAR file moved. |
New |
Displays a Properties dialog for configuring the resource. |
Ping |
Pings the resource to see whether the resource is responding. The
administrator can use the ping action as a basic check of the "health"
of the resource.
For information about the ping operation, consult the documentation
for the operating system in use. |
Properties |
Displays a properties dialog for configuring the resource. |
Reconnect |
Connects a node to the administrative server. |
Regen WebServer Plugin |
Regenerates the configuration for a WebSphere plugin for Web servers. This option
will overwrite the existing plugin configuration so the information in
"6.6.45: Administering WebSphere plug-ins for Web servers"
should be reviewed before using this option. |
Remove |
Permanently removes the selection and its children from the administrative domain. |
Restart |
Stops a resource, then returns the resource to the state it was in
before it (or its parent resource) was stopped.
For example, suppose you performed Stop for Restart
(or just Restart) on a running administrative
server node containing application server "A" in the stopped state and application
server "B" in the running state. The Restart command would cause
application server A to remain stopped. It would return application server B to
the running state, along with the administrative server. |
Show Status |
Displays a Module Status window that provides information about the modules,
the servers that the modules are installed on and their corresponding status values. |
Start |
Changes the resource to running state. |
Stop |
Stops the resource.
For an administrative server node, this action stops the administrative server
running on the node. It does not shut down the operating system. |
Stop for Restart |
Stops a resource and any resources contained by the resource, in preparation
for the Restart command.
It can be useful for stopping and restarting an administrative server that
contains multiple application servers, some of which are running and others
of which are stopped. Using a combination of Stop for Restart
and then Restart will return the application servers to their
former states (stopped or running) when the administrative server is restarted.
|
Transactions |
Displays the Transactions dialog for viewing and controlling
transactions occurring on the resource. See the related information
to learn more about administering transactions. |
Trace |
Displays the Trace Administration dialog. See the related information
to learn more about tracing. |
View Deployment Descriptor |
Displays the deployment descriptor of the selected enterprise application,
EJB module or Web Module. |