You can view and edit configuration files for your middleware servers
in the administrative console with the external configuration service.
Before you begin
- Create and configure the middleware server in the WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise environment.
See Adding middleware servers to configurations
for more information.
- You must know the fully qualified path name of the configuration file
that you want to view on the middleware server. This configuration file must
be less than 10 megabytes.
About this task
By configuring the external configuration service, you can view and
edit the configuration files for middleware servers from the administrative
console.
Procedure
- Enable the external configuration service for the middleware server.
In the administrative console, click Servers > Other middleware servers
> server_name > External configuration service. Select Enable
external configuration service. Click OK.
- Specify the configuration files that you want to edit or view in
the administrative console. Depending on the server type, one or
more configuration files might be listed by default. To add a file to this
list, enter the fully qualified path name of the file, and specify if this
file is writable. Click Add to add the file to the list. To change
the file permission for a file, select the file and click Toggle privileges.
- View and edit the configuration files. In the administrative
console, click Servers > Other middleware servers > server_name.
Click the External configuration tab. Select the configuration file
and click Retrieve. When you complete editing the file, click Apply to
save your changes.
What to do next
View the log files for your middleware servers.