This page describes the button choices that are available on various
pages of the administrative console, depending on which product features you
enable.
Select
all items. Selects each resource that is listed on
the administrative console panel, in preparation for performing an action
against the selected resources.
-
Deselect all items. Removes all the listed resources from
each selection so that no action is performed against any of the resources.
Show filter function. Produces a dialog box for specifying
the resources to view in the table on this administrative console page.
Hide
filter function. Hides the dialog box for specifying the resources to
view in the table on this administrative console page.
When you produce
the dialog box, select the column to filter and enter the filter criteria.
- Column to filter
- Select the column to filter from the drop-down list. When you apply the
filter, only those items in the selected column that meet the filter criteria
are displayed.
For example, select Names to enter criteria by which
to filter application server names.
- Filter criteria
- Enter a string that must be found in the name of a collection entry to
qualify the entry to display in the collection table. The string can contain
percent sign (%), asterisk (*), or question mark (?) symbols as wildcard characters.
For example, enter *App* to find any application server whose name
contains the string App.
Prefix each of the following
characters ( ) ^ * % { } \ + $ with a backslash (\) so
that the regular expression engine performing the search correctly matches
the search criteria. For example, to search for all Java DataBase Connectivity
(JDBC) providers containing (XA) in the provider name, specify
the following string:
*\(XA\)
Clear
filter value. Clears your filter changes and restores the most recently
saved values.
- Abort. Stops
a transaction that is not yet in the prepared state. All operations that the
transaction completed are undone.
- Activate. Activates
a group member.
- Add. Adds the selected or typed item to a list, or produces a dialog
for adding an item to a list.
- Apply. Saves your changes to a page without exiting the page.
- Back. Displays the previous page or item in a sequence. The administrative
console does not support using the Back and Forward options of a browser,
which can cause intermittent problems. Use Back or Cancel on the administrative
console panels instead.
- Browse. Opens
a dialog that enables you to look for a file on your system.
- Cancel. Exits the current page or dialog, discarding unsaved changes.
The administrative console does not support using the Back and Forward options
of a browser, which can cause intermittent problems. Use Cancel on the administrative
console panels instead.
- Change. In
the context of security, you can search the user registry for a user ID for
an application to run under. In the context of container properties, you
can change the data source that the container is using.
- Clear. Clears
your changes and restores the most recently saved values.
- Clear
selections. Clears any selected cells in the tables on this tabbed page.
- Close. Exits
the dialog.
- Collapse all. Collapses all the expanded items.
- Commit. Releases
all locks that are held by a prepared transaction and forces the transaction
to commit.
- Copy. Creates
copies of the selected application servers.
- Create. Saves
your changes to all the tabbed pages in a dialog and exits the dialog.
- Create
tables. Develops scheduler database tables.
- Deactivate. Deactivates
a group member. The group member must be in the active state to be deactivated.
The deactivate option causes the group member to move to the idle state. The
group policy overrides which members are activated and deactivated for a group.
The policy is enforced for every member state change. If the deactivate option
conflicts with the group policy, the policy resets who is the active member
of the group.
- Delete. Removes the selected instance.
- Details. Shows
the details about a transaction.
- Disable. Disables
a group or group member. When you disable a group or group member, the active
group or group member is first deactivated. If the deactivate option is successful,
the group or group member moves to the disable state. A disabled group or
group member cannot be activated.
- Disable Auto Start. Requires you to start the
application manually.
- Discard. Discards your local changes instead of
saving them to the master configuration.
- Done. Saves
your changes to all the tabbed pages in a dialog and exits the dialog.
- Down. Moves
through a list.
- Drop
tables. Removes scheduler database tables.
- Dump. Activates a dump of a traced application server.
- Edit. Lets
you edit the selected item in a list, or produces a dialog box for editing
the item.
- Enable. Enables
a group or a group member.
- Enable Auto Start. Starts an application automatically
when the server on which the application resides starts.
- Expand all. Expands all the collapsed items.
- Export. Accesses
a page for exporting enterprise archive (EAR) files for an enterprise application.
- Export
DDL. Accesses a page for exporting data definition language (DDL) files
for an enterprise application.
- Export
Keys. Exports Lightweight Third-Party Authentication (LTPA) keys to other
domains.
- Export
route table. Exports the route table information for a selected cluster
to a binary file in the configuration.
- Filter. Produces
a dialog box for specifying the resources to view in the tables on this tabbed
page.
- Finish. Forces
a transaction to finish, regardless of whether its outcome has been reported
to all participating applications.
- First. Displays
the first record in a series of records.
- Generate
keys. Generates new LTPA keys. When security is turned on for the first
time with LTPA as the authentication mechanism, LTPA keys are automatically
generated with the password entered in the panel. To generated new keys, use
this option after the server is up with security turned on. Clicking this
option generates the keys and propagates them to all active servers (cell,
node, and application servers). The new keys can be used to encrypt and decrypt
the LTPA tokens. Click Save on the console taskbar to save the new
keys and the password in the repository.
- Immediate
stop. Stops the server, but bypasses the normal server quiesce process
that supports in-flight requests to complete before shutting down the entire
server process. This shutdown mode is faster than the normal server stop processing,
but some application clients can receive exceptions.
- Import
keys. Imports new LTPA keys from other domains. To support single sign-on
(SSO) in WebSphere Application Server across multiple WebSphere domains (cells),
share LTPA keys and a password among the domains. After exporting the keys
from one of the cells into a file, click this option to import the keys into
all the active servers (cell, node, and application servers). The new keys
can be used to encrypt and decrypt the LTPA token. Click Save on the
console taskbar to save the new keys and the password in the repository.
- Install. Displays
the Preparing for application installation page, which you use to deploy
an application, an enterprise bean, or a Web component onto an application
server.
- Install
RAR. Opens a dialog that is used to install a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition Connector Architecture (JCA) connector and to create a resource adapter.
- Manage
state. Displays a list of MBeans that corresponds to your previous selection
of data source or connection factory configurations. You can apply JCA lifecycle
management operations to these MBeans to control the runtime status of the
corresponding resources.
- Manage
transactions. Displays a list of active transactions running on a server.
You can forcibly finish any transaction that has stopped processing because
a transactional resource is not available.
- Modify. Opens
a dialog that is used to change a specification.
- Move. Moves
the selected application servers to a different location in the administrative
cell. When prompted, specify the target location.
- Move
down. Moves downward through a list.
- Move
up. Moves upward through a list.
- New. Displays a page that you use to define a new instance. For
example, clicking New on the Application Servers page displays a page
on which you can configure a new application server.
- Next. Displays
the next page, frame, or item in a sequence.
- OK. Saves your changes to the local configuration and exits the
page.
- Pause. In
the context of JCA lifecycle management, stops all outbound communication
that is conducted through a resource on a specified server to a backend.
- Ping. Attempts
to contact selected application servers.
- Previous. Displays
the previous page, frame, or item in a sequence.
- Quit. Exits
a dialog box and discards any unsaved changes.
- Reference shared libraries. Opens the collection
of shared library references available for use by your application or module.
If no references are available, a message is displayed stating that there
are no references.
- Refresh. Refreshes the view of data for instances that are currently
listed on this tabbed page.
- Remove. Deletes the selected item.
- Remove file. Removes the specified file from the selected application
or module.
- Reset. Clears your changes on the tab or page and restores the
most recently saved values.
- Restart. Stops
the selected objects and starts them again.
- Resume. In
the context of JCA lifecycle management, restarts the activity of a data source
or a connection factory that was paused by a previous JCA lifecycle management
operation.
- Retrieve
new. Retrieves a new record.
- Save. Saves
the changes in your local configuration to the master configuration.
- Select. For
resource analysis, lets you select a scope in which to monitor resources.
- Set. Saves
your changes to settings in a dialog.
- Settings. Displays
a dialog for editing servlet-related resource settings.
- Settings
in use. Displays a dialog showing the settings in use.
- Start. In the context of application servers, starts selected application
servers. In the context of data collection, starts collecting data for the
tables on this tabbed page.
- Stop. In the context of server components such as application servers,
stops the selected server components. In the context of a data collection,
stops collecting data for the tables on a tabbed page.
- Terminate. Deletes
the Application Server process or another process that cannot be stopped by
the Stop or Immediate Stop commands. Some application clients
can receive exceptions. Always attempt an immediate stop before using this
option.
- Test connection. After you define and save a data source, you
can select this option to ensure that the parameters in the data source definition
are correct. On the Collection panel, you can select multiple data sources
and test them simultaneously.
- Uninstall. Deletes
a deployed application from the WebSphere Application Server configuration
repository. Also deletes application binary files from the file system.
- Update. For applications, replaces an application that is deployed
on a server with an updated application. As part of the updating, you might
need to complete steps on the Preparing for application installation and
Update application pages.
- Update
resource list. Updates the data on a table. Discovers and adds new instances
to the table.
- Verify
tables. Validates the mapping between the table names, scheduler resource,
and data sources.
- View. Opens a dialog on a file.