Overview and new features for administering applications and their environments

What is new for administrators

This topic provides an overview of new and changed features of system administration.

Introduction: System administration

This topic describes the administration of WebSphere Application Server, V6 products and the applications that run on them.

Presentations from IBM Education Assistant

The following presentations provide a quick overview:

• System management architecture

• Administrative security

• Administrative clients overview

  • Start, stop, and monitor processes

  • Other commands

  • Browser-based administrative console

  • Scripting - wsadmin

• Topologies and logical administrative domains

  • Resource scoping

  • Cells, deployment managers, and node agents

  • Build cells - Add and remove nodes

  • Manage node groups

• Applications and application resources

  • Application management overview

  • JDBC

  • Installing and uninstalling applications

  • Managed application resources - Enhanced EAR files

  • Fine grained application updates

• Servers

  • Manage Web server nodes

• Configuration management

  • Configuration repository

  • Configuration archives

  • File synchronization

 

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