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WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide

By : Steve Robinson
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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

Chapter 8. Administrative Features

WebSphere 7 comes with a new feature called the administrative agent, which provides a single interface to administer multiple standalone application servers. The administrative agent can manage multiple nodes (an application server which is federated into a WebSphere cell is called a node) and provides a common Administrative console to administer the nodes, thus reducing the need to have separate Administrative consoles for each application server. In this chapter, we will also cover IBM HTTP Server and the WebSphere plugin. The plugin allows IBM HTTP Server (IHS) to be used in web application architecture designs where you may want server static content to be served by the web server and requests for dynamic context, such as servlets, to route to the application server.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Administration agent

  • Registration of nodes

  • De-registration of nodes

  • IBM HTTP Server (IHS)

  • WebSphere plug-in

The administrative agent

In WebSphere...