Administer Liberty using developer tools
We can modify how the workbench interacts with Liberty using the server editor.
- In the Servers view, right-click the server and select Open.
- View general information, publishing, timeouts, and settings in the server editor.
The Liberty settings include the following options:
- Stop server on workbench shutdown
- Specifies whether a server instance that we started is stopped when you shut down your developer tools workbench. When we create a server instance, the setting is enabled for that instance by default. We can enable or disable the setting for a particular server instance independent of the other server instances. When you shut down your developer tools workbench, all the server instances that we started inside the workbench and that have the Stop server on workbench shutdown setting enabled is stopped during shutdown. However, all the server instances that we started inside the developer tools workbench but have the Stop server on workbench shutdown setting disabled continue to run. Any servers that we started outside the developer tools workbench also continue to run.
- Server connection
- Specifies information about the remote Liberty server connection settings. This information includes user name, password, and secure port settings for the remote server. These settings are the same as those settings that you enter when we create a new remote server. We can modify the values for these settings and click Verify to test the remote connection. When you click Verify, you establish a JMX connection to the remote host with the values that you specified. If no such server exists, an error message is displayed and the server state is changed to STOPPED. If the connection is successful, a fresh JMX connection is made with the server and the server state is updated according to the state of the remote server.
- The fields for the user name, password, and port number settings cannot be empty. If any of the fields are empty, we cannot save. If any of the fields are empty, Verify is disabled.
- If we are using a local host, the user name, password, and port number settings are disabled. These settings are enabled only if the server in use is a remote server.
What to do next
- Create and edit the server environment files
- Edit the Liberty configuration using developer tools
- Specify the Liberty configuration with dropins files using developer tools
- Start and stop a server using developer tools
- Switch a Liberty Docker server between run and debug mode using developer tools
- Define a utility project as a shared library
- Runtime Explorer
- Display the server configuration in a merged view
- View the schema documentation for the server configuration
- Generate a Liberty server diagnostic dump using developer tools
- Package a Liberty server using developer tools
- Add a data source using developer tools
- Install config snippets
Parent topic: Administer Liberty
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