Before you begin
The administration port accepts only secure, SSL traffic, and all connections via the port require authentication by a server administrator. Because of these features, enabling the administration port imposes the following restrictions on your domain:
For more information, see Ensuring the Security of Your Production Environment.
WebLogic Server provides the option to enable an SSL administration port for use with all servers in the domain. Using the administration port is strongly recommended. It provides three capabilities:
To enable the administration port for your domain:
After you finish
After enabling the administration port, all Administration Console traffic must connect via the administration port.
In addition, Managed Servers must connect to the Administration Server through the administration port. You can do this by specifying the following option at the command line when starting the Managed Server:
host admin_port
In this argument, host refers to the address of the Administration Server and admin_port is the administration port that the Administration Server uses. Note that you must specify the https:// prefix, rather than http://.