Access help and product information from the administrative console

This topic describes how to use administrative console help and how to link to product documentation from the administrative console.

We must have a connection to the Internet to access information about WebSphere Application Server from the Welcome page of the administrative console.

All of the helps panels that we can access from the administrative console, we can access from the WAS Information Center. This topic describes how to access the help panels, the information center, and other product documentation from the administrative console.

• Click Welcome on the administrative console navigation tree. In the workspace, click the link, which takes you to a page that has links to various documentation. The documentation that is linked includes the WAS Information Center, the WAS product information, and the WAS technical information on developerWorks .

• Access help in the following ways:

  • Click either of the following tabs of an online help page:

    • Click the Help index tab and select from the list of help panels to view administrative console help information.

    • Click the Search tab, provide search terms, and then click Search. Under Results, select a help panel containing the search information.

  • In the help portal that is on the side of the administrative console panel, do one or all of the following tasks:

    • Click a field label or a list marker in the administrative console panel for the help to display under Field help. Alternatively, place the cursor over the field label or the list marker for the corresponding help to display at the cursor.

      When you place the cursor over the field label or list marker, the help might be truncated in a Firefox browser. Click the field label or list marker so that the full help displays under Field help.

    • Click the link under Page help to access the help panel for the administrative console panel. The help panel is the same help panel that displays when you click the ? icon.

    • If Command assistance is listed, click the link under Command assistance to view wsadmin scripting commands for the last action run for this console panel.

What to do next

We can continue to access help information from the administrative console. Alternatively, we can access the help information from the WAS Information Center.

We can continue to access the WAS Information Center, the WAS product information, and the WAS technical information on developerWorks from the administrative console. Alternatively we can access the information from the IBM website.

Subtopics

• Access command assistance from the administrative console
  Using command assistance, we can view wsadmin scripting commands in the Jython language for the last action run in the administrative console. This topic discusses how to access command assistance from the administrative console.

Related tasks

Use the administrative console