This section focuses on using the wsadmin tool and commands to administer production environments and realistic
test environments, including post-installation and customization tasks for
administrators, deploying applications onto application servers, and
administering applications and their server environments.
Use the Administering applications and their environments section to use the administrative console to manage your configuration settings.
- Getting started with scripting
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Provides an introduction to WebSphere Application Server scripting and information about using the
wsadmin tool. Topics include information about the scripting languages and the scripting objects,
and instructions for starting the wsadmin tool.
- Deploying applications
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Provides instructions for deploying and uninstalling applications. For example, stand-alone Java archive
files and Web archive files, the administrative console, remote enterprise archive (EAR) files, file transfer
applications, and so on.
- Managing deployed applications
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Includes tasks to perform after the application is deployed. For example, starting and stopping applications,
checking status, modifying listener address ports, querying application state, configuring a shared library, and so on.
- Configuring servers
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Includes topics for configuring servers, such as creating a server, modifying and restarting the server,
configuring the Java virtual machine, disabling a component, disabling a service, and so on.
- Managing servers
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Includes tasks to use to manage servers. For example, stopping nodes, starting and stopping servers,
querying a server state, starting a listener port, and so on.
- Configuring Web services applications
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Includes tasks to use to configure Web services applications, publish a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file,
to configure application and system policy sets, and to establish secure sessions between clients and services.
- Configuring data access
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Includes topics such as configuring a Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) provider, defining a data source,
configuring connection pools, and so on.
- Configuring security
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Includes security tasks such as enabling and disabling security, automating SSL configurations,
configuring name space bindings, and so on.
- Troubleshooting administration
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Provides information about how to troubleshoot using scripting. For example, tracing, thread dumps, profiles, and so on.