Introduction: Administrative scripting (wsadmin)

 

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The WebSphere admin wsadmin scripting program is a , non-graphical command interpreter environment enabling you to run admin operations in a scripting language. The wsadmin tool is intended for production environments and unattended operations. Use wsadmin to perform the same tasks that we can perform using the admin console.

The following list highlights the topics and tasks available with scripting:

 

• Getting started with scripting

  Provides an introduction to WAS scripting and information about using wsadmin. Topics include information about the scripting languages and the scripting objects, and instructions for starting wsadmin.

• Use the Jython script library

  The script library provides Jython script procedures to assist in automating your environment. Use the sample scripts to...

  • manage applications
  • resources
  • servers
  • nodes
  • clusters

  We can also use the script procedures as examples to learn the Jython syntax.

• Deploy applications

  Provides instructions for deploying and uninstalling applications. For example...

  • stand-alone Java archive files and Web archive files
  • the admin console
  • remote EAR files
  • file transfer applications
• Manage deployed applications

  Includes tasks that you 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
• Set servers

  Provides instructions for configuring servers, such as...

  • creating a server
  • modifying and restarting the server
  • configuring the Java virtual machine
  • disabling a component
  • disabling a service
• Set connections to Web servers

  Includes topics such as...

  • regenerating the plug-in
  • creating new virtual host templates
  • modifying virtual hosts
• Manage servers

  Includes tasks that you use to manage servers. For example...

  • stopping nodes
  • starting and stopping servers
  • querying a server state
  • starting a listener port
• Clustering servers

  Includes topics about...

  • creating clusters
  • creating cluster members
  • querying a cluster state
  • removing clusters
• Set security

  Includes security tasks such as enabling and disabling security.

• Set data access

  Includes topics...

  • Set a JDBC provider
  • Defining a data source
  • Set connection pools
• Set messaging

  Includes topics about messaging, such as...

  • JMS connection
  • JMS provider
  • WebSphere queue connection factory
  • MQ topics
• Set mail, URLs, and resource environment entries

  Includes topics such as...

  • mail providers
  • mail sessions
  • protocols
  • resource environment providers
  • referenceables
  • URL providers
  • URLs
• Dynamic caching

  Includes caching topics, for example, creating, viewing and modifying a cache instance.

• Troubleshooting

  Provides information about how to troubleshoot using scripting. For example, tracing, thread dumps, profiles, and so on.

• Obtaining product information

  Includes tasks such as querying WAS identification.

• Scripting reference material

  Includes all of the reference material related to scripting. Topics include the syntax for wsadmin and for the admin command framework, explanations and examples for all of the scripting object commands, the scripting properties, and so on.

 

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