Start the administrative console

 

Overview

The browser-based administrative console for WAS requires that cookies be enabled in the browser.

To start the administrative console on a workstation...

1. Verify that the WAS environment has started.

2. Open this URL in the browser:

   http://the.server.name:port/admin

   ...where the.server.name is the host name of the iSeries server on which the application server is running, and port is the administrative console port as noted in the ready message in the joblog of the application server.

   The default administrative console port is 9090 for both the default WAS (Base) instance and the default WAS Network Deployment instance. If the administrative console port is in conflict with another application, use the chgwassvr script in Qshell to change the port.

   In this example, the administrative console port and administrative console SSL port for the application server myAppSvr in the instance myInstance are changed to 6380 and 6381, respectively:

   chgwassvr -instance myInstance -server myAppSvr -admin 6380 -adminssl 6381

3. When prompted, enter a user ID. The administrative console is displayed in the browser window.

   The user ID does not need to be an OS/400 user profile. This user ID is used only to track which users make changes to the application server configuration.

 

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