Tools for Managing Security

The Application Server provides the following tools for managing security:

• Admin Console, a browser-based tool used to configure security for the entire server, to manage users, groups, and realms, and to perform other system-wide security tasks. For a general introduction to the Admin Console, see Tools for Administration. For an overview of the security tasks you can perform with the Admin Console, see Managing Security With the Admin Console.

• asadmin, a command-line tool that performs many of the same tasks as the Admin Console. You may be able to do some things with asadmin that you cannot do with Admin Console. You perform asadmin commands from either a command prompt or through a script, to automate repetitive tasks. For a general introduction to asadmin, see Tools for Administration.

The Java Enterprise Edition 5 platform (Java EE 5), provides two tools for managing security:

• keytool, a command-line utility for managing digital certificates and key pairs. Use keytool to manage users in the certificate realm.

• policytool, a graphical utility for managing system-wide Java security policies. As an administrator, you will rarely need to use policytool.

For more information on using keytool, policytool, and other Java security tools, see Java 2 SDK Tools and Utilities at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/index.html#security.