Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Product overview and quick start
Use the administrative clients
The product provides a variety of administrative clients for deploying and administering the applications and application serving environment, including configurations and logical administrative domains.
Procedure
- Use the administrative console
The administrative console is a graphical, browser-based tool.
- Get started with wsadmin scripting
Scripting is a non-graphical alternative that you can use to configure and administer the applications and application serving environment. The WAS wsadmin tool provides the ability to run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full range of product administrative activities.
- Use Ant to automate tasks
To support using Apache Ant with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications running on IBM WAS, the product provides a copy of the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks that extend the capabilities of Ant to include product-specific functions.
- Use administrative programs (JMX)
The product supports access to the administrative functions through a set of Java classes and methods, under the JMX specification. We can write a Java program that performs any of the administrative features of the other administrative clients. You also can extend the basic product administrative system to include your own managed resources.
- Use command-line tools
Several command-line tools are available that you can use to start, stop, and monitor WebSphere server processes and nodes. These tools work on local servers and nodes only. They cannot operate on a remote server or node.
Overview and new features for administering applications and their environments