Overview of Administration Tools for Version 5

System administration provides a variety of tools for managing WebSphere Application Server. These tools can be categorized into four general tool sets that are available with most editions of the product:

  • Command-line tools

  • Administrative Console

  • Scripting tool

  • Java programming APIs

Individual chapters of this book focus on in-depth details of each of these tool sets, but the following overview provides an introduction to the intended usage for the different tools.

Command-Line Tools

Command-line tools are simple programs that you run from a command prompt to perform specific tasks. Using the command-line tools, you can start and stop application servers, check server status, add or remove nodes, and ...

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