Administration

To administer WebSphere Application Server, see the topics in this section. These topics describe administrative tasks and the tools that are provided to perform those tasks.

Basic configuration scenario
If you are new to configuring WebSphere Application Server, start here. This topic shows you how to configure the product and deploy a sample application.

Administrative tools
See this topic for information about the administrative tools that you can use to configure and manage application servers, applications, and resources.

Configuration and management
This topic describes how to administer the WebSphere Application Server environment, application servers, applications, and resources.

Performance
WebSphere Application Server is shipped with a stand-alone performance monitoring application called Tivoli Performance Viewer. This topic describes how to use the Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor and manage the performance of your applications.

High availability database
This topic describes how to use data replication and switchable disk to manage the availability of your enterprise applications.

Advanced topologies
WebSphere Application Server ships with a single application server topology. WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment allows you to configure multiple machine environments in which applications are deployed on several application servers. This topic describes advanced topologies that incorporate firewalls, Web server separation techniques, horizontal and vertical scaling, and multiple WebSphere Application Server cells. It also provides an example of each topology.

High availability
With WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, you can use clustering to deploy applications on multiple machines or logical partitions. Clustering provides failover support and enables workload management. This topic provides information on high availability, clustering, and workload management.

Administration reference
This topic provides reference information about WebSphere Application Server administration. It includes information about file and directory structure, user profiles and authorities, product scripts and commands, and port usage.