Testing a connection using wsadmin

The AdminControl object of wsadmin has a testConnection operation that tests the configuration properties of a data source object. It takes a configuration ID as an argument.

Note: There is no way to pass a user ID and password to this invocation. This invocation can only be used for databases that do not require a user ID and password to make a connection (such as DB2 on a Windows machine), or for data sources that have a component-managed or container-managed authentication alias set on the data source object.

Invoke the getid() method for your data source.
Set the value of the configuration id to a variable.
```
set myds [$AdminConfig getid /JDBCProvider:mydriver/DataSource:mydatasrc/] 
```
where /JDBCProvider:mydriver/DataSource:mydatasrc/ is the data source you want to test. After you have the configuration ID of the data source, you can test the connection to the database.
Test the connection to the database.
```
$AdminControl testConnection $myds
```

Related concepts
Test connection service