Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > New features > Overview and new features: Administering > Introduction: System administration
Introduction: Administrative console
The administrative console is a graphical interface that allows you to manage the applications and perform system administration tasks for your WAS environment. The administrative console runs in your web browser.
Your actions in the console modify a set of XML configuration files.
We can use the admin console to perform tasks such as:
- Add, delete, start, and stop application servers
- Deploy new applications to a server
- Start and stop existing applications, and modify certain configurations
- Add and delete Java EE resource providers for applications that require data access, mail, URLs, and so on
- Manage variables, shared libraries, and other configurations that can span multiple application servers
- Configure product security, including access to the administrative console
- Collect data for performance and troubleshooting purposes
- Find the product version information. It is located on the front page of the console.
Start and logging off the administrative console helps you begin using the console so that you can explore the available options. See also the Reference > Administrator > Settings section of the information center navigation. It lists the settings or properties you can configure.
Use the administrative console
Concept topic