Tools for Administration (Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Administration Guide)

Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Administration Guide

Tools for Administration

The Application Server provides the following administration tools and APIs:

Admin Console

The Admin Console is a browser-based tool that features an easy-to-navigate interface and online help. The administration server (also called the Domain Administration Server or DAS) must be running to use the Admin Console. To, launch the Administration Console, you must know the administration server hostname and port number. When the Application Server was installed, you chose a port number for the server, or used the default port of 4848. You also specified a user name and master password.

To start the Admin Console, in a web browser type:

http://hostname:port

For example:

http://kindness.sun.com:4848

If the Admin Console is running on the machine on which the Application Server was installed, specify localhost for the host name.

On Windows, start the Application Server Admin Console from the Start menu.

The installation program creates the default administrative domain (named domain1). . After installation, additional administration domains can be created. Each domain has its own domain administration server, which has a unique port number. When specifying the URL for the Admin Console, be sure to use the port number for the domain to be administered.

If your configuration includes remote server instances, create node agents to manage and facilitate remote server instances. It is the responsibility of the node agent to create, start, stop, and delete a server instance. Use the command line interface (CLI) commands to set up node agents.

Command-line Interface (`asadmin` Utility)

The asadmin utility is a command-line interface for the Sun Java System Application Server. Use the asadmin utility and the commands associated with it to perform the same set of administrative tasks offered by the Admin Console. The default installation root directory on Solaris is /opt/SUNWappserver.

To start the asadmin utility, go to the as-install/bin directory and enter:

$ ./asadmin

To list the commands available within asadmin:

asadmin> help

It is also possible to issue an asadmin command at the shell’s command prompt:

$ asadmin help

To view a command’s syntax and examples, type help followed by the command name. For example:

asadmin> help create-jdbc-resource

The asadmin help information for a given command displays the UNIX man page of the command. These man pages are also available in HTML and PDF format in the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Reference Manual.

JConsole

In the Java 2, Platform Standard Edition 5.0, the Java Monitoring and Management Console (JConsole) was introduced. JConsole is used to monitor the Sun Java System Application Server. You can use either the JConsole remote tab, or the advanced tab to connect to the Application Server.

Remote Tab: identify the username, password, administration server host, and JMS port number (8686 by default), and select Connect.
Advanced Tab: identify the JMXServiceURL as service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://host:jms-port/jmxrmi and select Connect. The JMXServerURL is printed in the server.log file as well as output in the command window of the domain creation command.

Application Server Management Extension (AMX)

The Application Server Management eXtension is an API that exposes all of the Application Server configuration and monitoring JMX managed beans as easy-to-use client-side dynamic proxies implementing the AMX interfaces.

For more information on using the Application Server Management Extension, see Chapter 20, Using the Application Server Management Extensions, in Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Developer’s Guide.