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WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide

By : Steve Robinson
Book Image

WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide

By: Steve Robinson

Overview of this book

As an administrator you need a secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure to support the developers building and managing J2EE applications and Service Oriented Architecture services. WebSphere application server, a product from IBM, is optimized to ease administration and improve runtime performance. It helps you run applications and services in a reliable, secure, and high-performance environment to ensure business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime. It's easy to get started and tame this powerful application server when you've got this book to hand. This administration guide will help you provide an innovative, performance-based foundation to build, run, and manage J2EE applications and SOA services, offering the highest level of reliability, security, and scalability. This book will take you through the different methods for installing WebSphere application server and demonstrate how to configure and prepare WebSphere resources for your application deployments. During configuration you will be shown how to administer your WebSphere server standalone or using the new administrative agent, which provides the ability to administer multiple installations of WebSphere application server using one single administration console. WebSphere security is covered in detail showing the various methods of implanting federated user and group repositories. The facets of data-aware and message-aware applications are explained and demonstrated giving the reader real-world examples of manual and automated deployments. Key administration features and tools are introduced, which will help a WebSphere administrator manage and tune their WebSphere implementation and application for success.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Logs


The WebSphere application server uses logs to log what is happening during server runtime. Administrators can use the logs to determine application server runtime status. Logs are also very useful during problem determination when there are problems with WebSphere. The main log folder is the application server's logs directory which is found in the<was_profile_root> folder. Below is a screenshot of a typical logs directory.

In the screenshot above, you will see that the application server is located in a profile named appsrv01, which is located in the profiles directory. The logs folder is located in the /apps/was7/profiles/appsrv01 folder which is referred to as<was_profile_root>. The logs folder will always be here unless you override log locations in the Administrative console.

JVM logs

The main logs for a WebSphere Application Server are contained in a folder with the same name as the application server. In our example, our application is called server1, so the log files...