4.1 Introducing the WebSphere consoleThe WebSphere console is the graphical, Web-based tool that you use to configure and manage an entire WebSphere cell. It supports the full range of product administrative activities, such as creating and managing resources and applications, viewing product messages, and so on. In a stand-alone server environment, the console is located on the appserver and can be used to configure and manage the resources of that server only. In a distributed server environment, the console is located in the deployment manager server, dmgr. In this case, the console provides centralized administration of multiple nodes. Configuration changes are made to the master repository and pushed to the local repositories on the nodes by the deployment manager. In order for the console to run, the dmgr server must be running. In order for the changes to the master repository to be pushed to the nodes, the node agents must also be running. The console groups administrative tasks into the following categories:
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