About the Administration Console

The Application Server Admin Console is a Web browser-based, graphical user interface that you use to manage the application server domain. An Application Server domain is a logically related group of Application Server resources that you manage as a unit. A domain includes one or more Application Servers. You deploy and manage your applications as part of a domain.

One instance of the Application Server in the domain is configured as a Domain Administration Server (DAS). The Domain Administration Server provides a central point for managing an Application Server domain. In a domain with only a single Application Server instance, that server functions as both a Domain Administration Server and the management server. The Domain Administration Server hosts the Administration Console, which is a Web application accessible from any supported Web browser with network access to the Administration Server.

Use the Administration Console to:

• Configure, start, and stop Application Server instances

• Configure Application Server services, such as database connectivity (JDBC) and messaging (JMS)

• Configure security parameters, including managing users, groups, and roles

• Configure and deploy your applications

• Monitor server and application performance

• View server and domain log files

Using Online Help

The Admin Console’s online help is context-sensitive: When clicking the Help link in the upper right corner, the help browser window displays a topic related to the current Admin Console page.

The online help includes conceptual topics that are not context-sensitive. To view one of these topics, select it from the table of contents in the help browser window.