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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

Global security


In Chapter 1, during the installation process of WebSphere Application Server, we opted not to turn on global security and thus we did not have to supply a password to log in to the Administrative console. We logged in using the username wasadmin and we were not prompted for a password. The truth of the matter is that we could have actually used any name as the console was not authenticating us at all. To protect our WAS from unauthorized access, we need to turn on global security.

Note

It is important to secure the administration of WebSphere even if the applications being installed are not using security. It is paramount to ensure we have control of our WebSphere environments. The larger your team is the more important this becomes. In time, other people in your organization will get to know the URLs of your WebSphere servers and if they are not secured you do not really know who is making changes without your approval. Securing the console stops inadvertent access and can...