WAS v8.5 > Script the application serving environment (wsadmin)

Use properties files to manage system configuration

Use wsadmin and properties files to administer your administrative architecture and runtime settings. We can use properties files to manage the environment and configuration objects. We can extract configuration objects in simple properties file format, modify the extracted properties file, and apply the modified properties file to update the system configuration.

In addition to updating system properties, we can do the following:

• Extract properties required to run an administrative command.

• Run an administrative command using an extracted properties file.
• Extract or modify properties for any WCCM object type.
• Extract or modify all properties of an object type.
• Delete or remove a property and modify a property using a single properties file.
• Delete a configuration object in the same properties file used to create or modify properties.

A properties file extracted from a configuration contains the following information about the configuration:

• Required properties for creating a new object of any type.
• Defaults for a property.
• Range of values for a property.

Properties files are portable. We can extract a properties file from one cell, modify some environment-specific variables at the bottom of the extracted properties file, and then apply the modified properties file to another cell.

To use non-English, localized special characters in properties files, save the properties files using UTF-8 encoding. Using any other encoding might cause errors when the product resolves the non-English resources during properties file validation or cause incorrect value changes in the configuration files after applying the properties files.

• Manage environment configurations with properties files.
• Extract properties files.
• Validate properties files.
• Apply properties files.
• Run administrative commands using properties files.
• Extract or modify properties for a WCCM object type.
• Apply portable properties files across multiple environments.
• Manage specific configuration objects with properties files.

Save the changes to your configuration.

Subtopics

• Manage environment configurations with properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic to modify the environment using properties files. We can use wsadmin to generate, validate and apply properties files in the application server, profile, node, or other resource configurations.
• Extracting properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic to extract properties files from your configuration. We can use wsadmin to extract properties files for cell, server, server subtype, and node configurations.
• Validating properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic to validate configuration properties before applying properties files to your configuration.
• Applying properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic and wsadmin to apply modified configuration properties to the environment using properties files.
• Run administrative commands using properties files
  Use wsadmin to run an existing administrative command using properties file based configuration. The command must not contain a parameter that uses a complex data type. Supported parameter types are basic types such as String, Long, Integer, Float, Double, Boolean, Character, Short, Byte, URL, and ObjectName, and complex types such as Array of basic types, Properties, DownLoadFile, and UpLoadFile.
• Extracting or modifying WCCM object properties
  Use wsadmin to extract or modify the properties of an existing WCCM (WebSphere Common Configuration Model) object.
• Applying portable properties files across multiple environments
  Use wsadmin to extract a properties file from one cell, modify environment-specific variables at the bottom of the extracted properties file, and then apply the modified properties file to another cell. Modifying environment-specific variables makes a properties file portable.
• Manage specific configuration objects using properties files
  Use wsadmin to change configuration properties and manage configuration objects of the environment using properties files.
• Properties file syntax
  To use the properties file based configuration tool, properties files must use supported syntax. This topic describes some important syntax.
• PropertiesBasedConfiguration command group for AdminTask using wsadmin.sh
  We can use scripting to customize part of your system configuration using properties files. The WebSphere configuration repository stores many different types of configurations. We can use properties files to customize some of these configurations. We can customize some configurations created by the WebSphere Common Configuration Model (WCCM) or configurations deployed as Java EE applications.
• Manage environment configurations with properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic to modify the environment using properties files. We can use wsadmin to generate, validate and apply properties files in the application server, profile, node, or other resource configurations.
• Extracting properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic to extract properties files from your configuration. We can use wsadmin to extract properties files for cell, server, server subtype, and node configurations.
• Validating properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic to validate configuration properties before applying properties files to your configuration.
• Applying properties files using wsadmin.sh
  Use this topic and wsadmin to apply modified configuration properties to the environment using properties files.
• Run administrative commands using properties files
  Use wsadmin to run an existing administrative command using properties file based configuration. The command must not contain a parameter that uses a complex data type. Supported parameter types are basic types such as String, Long, Integer, Float, Double, Boolean, Character, Short, Byte, URL, and ObjectName, and complex types such as Array of basic types, Properties, DownLoadFile, and UpLoadFile.
• Properties file syntax
  To use the properties file based configuration tool, properties files must use supported syntax. This topic describes some important syntax.
• PropertiesBasedConfiguration command group for AdminTask using wsadmin.sh
  We can use scripting to customize part of your system configuration using properties files. The WebSphere configuration repository stores many different types of configurations. We can use properties files to customize some of these configurations. We can customize some configurations created by the WebSphere Common Configuration Model (WCCM) or configurations deployed as Java EE applications.
• Manage specific configuration objects using properties files
  Use wsadmin to change configuration properties and manage configuration objects of the environment using properties files.

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