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Creates and registers a custom MBean. If the target MBeanServer is not running, the MBean is not registered.
This command is supported in remote mode only.
If an option has a short option name, then the short option precedes the long option name. Short options have one dash whereas long options have two dashes.
Indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.
Setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.
If set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.
The machine name where the domain administration server is running. The default value is localhost.
The HTTP/S port for administration. This is the port to which you should point your browser in order to manage the domain. For example, http://localhost:4848.
The default port number for Platform Edition is 4848. The default port number for Enterprise Edition is 4849.
If set to true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain administration server.
The authorized domain administration server administrative username.
If you have authenticated to a domain using the asadmin login command, then you need not specify the --user option on subsequent operations to this particular domain.
The ––passwordfile option specifies the name of a file containing the password entries in a specific format. The entry for the password must have the AS_ADMIN_ prefix followed by the password name in uppercase letters.
For example, to specify the domain administration server password, use an entry with the following format: AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password, where password is the actual administrator password. Other passwords that can be specified include AS_ADMIN_MAPPEDPASSWORD, AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD, and AS_ADMIN_ALIASPASSWORD.
All remote commands must specify the admin password to authenticate to the domain administration server, either through ––passwordfile or asadmin login, or interactively on the command prompt. The asadmin login command can be used only to specify the admin password. For other passwords, that must be specified for remote commands, use the ––passwordfile or enter them at the command prompt.
If you have authenticated to a domain using the asadmin login command, then you need not specify the admin password through the ––passwordfile option on subsequent operations to this particular domain. However, this is applicable only to AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD option. You will still need to provide the other passwords, for example, AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD, as and when required by individual commands, such as update-file-user.
For security reasons, passwords specified as an environment variable will not be read by asadmin.
Displays the help text for the command.
Specifies the name of the MBean definition. It should be unique for a given domain as the namespace for MBeans is shared with that for Java EE applications and modules. Therefore, you should not use the name of a deployed enterprise application for creating an MBean. The default name is the MBean's implementation class name.
Specifies the javax.management.ObjectName of the MBean. The ObjectName must be unique within the target specified, as is the case with the name of the MBean. The uniqueness is required because at runtime the MBeans are registered with their ObjectName and not names. The default ObjectName is of the format: user:type=implementation-class-name,name=implementation-class-name. The user is the name of the JMX Domain where these MBeans will be registered. No other JMX domain name is allowed.
This is the ObjectName that will be stored in the Application Server domain's configuration. At runtime though, when the MBean is registered in the MBeanServer, an identifying property, server=name_of_the_target_server_instance is inserted in the ObjectName.
This property is not persisted. It is a runtime artifact only.
Specify the ID of the server where the MBean will be registered. Defaults to the name of the Domain Administration Server (DAS).
Specifies the names and values of the attributes for the initialization of the MBean.
Specifies the names and values of the attributes that the MBean should be initialized with. The attributes are specified in the format, name1=value1:name2=value2:... The types of these attributes must be simple Java Types. such as primitive data types and their wrapper classes. In general, an attribute of the MBean that could be initialized this way should have a constructor that accepts a java.lang.String. The data type of the attributes is found from the MBeanInfo of the MBean. Once initialized, these attributes are available for modification later. These attributes loosely define the metadata of the MBean.
Specifies fully qualified name of the MBean's implementation classname. The class should have a default constructor. In case of a Standard MBean, it should be the name of the class that implements the Standard MBean interface. The classes and interfaces that this MBean depends upon should be available to the server. If they are part of the server's classpath, they will be loaded by the server.
If a new MBean needs to be created while the domain administration server is running, copy all the required classes to appserver_install_dir/domains_dir/applications/mbeans with the proper package structure. The classes will then be dynamically loaded. It is important to note that the MBean classes will be loaded only from this location if they are not loaded from the server's classpath.
Once the MBean is created successfully, when the target server is running, the MBean definition is persisted in the server's configuration and an instance of the MBean is registered in the MBeanServer available in the server's runtime. Such an MBean can then be browsed using a standard JMX Console like JConsole.
create-mbean --user admin --passwordfile filename.txt com.sun.example.Foo |
This example creates an MBean definition and registers it in the runtime of the domain administration server. The name of the MBean is com.example.Foo, the ObjectName of the MBean is user:type=com.example.Foo,name=com.sun.example.Foo,server=server. The attributes of the MBean will assume the values dictated by the default constructor.
create-mbean --user admin --passwordfile filename.txt --objectname "user:type=file,name=students.log" --name file1 --target --attributes Location=Root:Level=01 cluster1 com.example.Bar |
This example assumes that there is a target with name cluster1, comprised of server instances server1, server2). Clusters are available only in Enterprise Edition of Application Server.
It creates an MBean definition with name file1, ObjectName user:type=file,name=students.log (in the configuration). The runtime MBean is registered in the default MBeanServer in both server1 and server2. The ObjectNames of the registered MBeans would be user:type=file,name=students.log,server=server1 and user:type=file,name=students.log,server=server2 respectively. The attributes named Location and Level in the MBean would be initialized to Root and 01 respectively. The data-type of the attributes is derived from MBeanInfo. The MBeans will be available during runtime only if server1 and server2 are running.
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