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IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

By : Steve Robinson
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IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

By: Steve Robinson

Overview of this book

Administrators require a secure, scalable, and resilient application infrastructure to support the development of JEE applications and SOA services. IBM’s WebSphere Application Server is optimized for this task, and this book will ensure that you can utilize all that this tool has to offer with the exciting new features of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide is fully revised with details of the new functionality of WebSphere Application Server 8.0, including the new installation GUI, managed deployment, and HPEL. With this book in hand, you will be equipped to provide an innovative, performance-based foundation to build, run, and manage JEE applications and SOA services.IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 has been tuned for higher performance out of the box, and numerous enhancements have been made to give you as an administrator more options for increasing runtime performance. This book will allow you to utilize all of these features, including HPEL logging and disabling WebSphere MQ Messaging. You will be taken through how to configure and prepare WebSphere resources for your application deployments, and by the end of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide, you will be able to successfully manage and tune your WebSphere 8.0 implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Command assistance


A really useful feature within the Administrative console is the ability to turn on command assistance. When command assistance is turned on, configuration changes in the Administrative console are recorded and displayed within a link in the right-hand navigation panel of the console. You can then refer to the Jython recorded to understand what wsadmin command is used for a particular configuration change. It is also possible to turn on command logging, which will create a log file containing the recorded configuration changes. To turn on command assistance, follow these steps:

  1. Click on the Console Preferences link located in the System administration section within the left-hand side navigation panel:

  2. Within the Console Preferences page you can toggle Administration console preferences. Check the Enable command assistance notifications option to have the console display the commands as configurations are made. Check the Log command assistance commands option to instruct...