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.

• 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 we can use to configure and administer the applications and application serving environment. The WebSphere Application Server wsadmin tool provides the ability to run scripts. The wsadmin tool supports a full range of product administrative activities.

  (iseries) See also Configure Qshell to run WebSphere scripts .

• Use Ant to automate tasks
  

  To support using Apache Ant with JEE (Java EE) applications running on IBM WebSphere Application Server, 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 (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 our own managed resources.

• Use command-line tools
  

  Several command-line tools are available that we 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.

  (iseries) See also Configure Qshell to run WebSphere scripts .

• (zos) Use MVS console commands
  

  These commands are for use on z/OS systems.

Related concepts

Overview: Administering