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
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.