You can use the administrative console to manage applications, buses, servers, and resources within the administrative domain.
The following list of tasks can help you get started using the administrative console.
For a stand-alone profile, you start the one server; for a deployment manager cell, you start the deployment manager server.
If
you are using Windows, you can use the Start menu to
start the server.
You can also use the startServer command to start a server from the command line.
The node agent for the node on which the server resides must be running before you can start the server.
For more information about starting servers, see Starting servers.
To access the administrative console, you must start it and then log in. After you finish working in the console, save your work and log out.
For more information about starting the administrative console, see Starting or stopping the administrative console.
Preferences control how data is displayed in the administrative console, and how the workspace behaves.
For more information about specifying preferences, see Setting administrative console preferences.
The scope specifies the level at which a resource is visible on the administrative console. A resource can be visible in a console collection table at the cell, node, cluster, or server scope. You always create resources at the current scope that is selected in the administrative console panel, even though the resources might be visible at more than one scope.
For information about setting the console scope, see WebSphere Application Server Information Center for details on setting the scope.
You can use a task filter to display the set of panels that are most appropriate to the tasks that you want to complete, and thereby focus your activities on only those panels.
For more information about using task filters, see Changing the task filter.
Each table on a collection page in the administrative console displays a list of WebSphere Process Server data or resources. You can use a filter to specify exactly which resources or data to display in a particular column of the table. Filters can be set on a single column only.
For more information about using administrative console filters, see Setting administrative console filters.
By default, a console session times out after 30 minutes of inactivity. You can change this value by editing the deployment.xml configuration file, as described in the Setting the session timeout for the administrative console.
Until you save your changes to the master repository, the console uses a local workspace to track the changes.
To save your changes, click System Administration > Save Changes to Master Repository to display the Save page, then click Save.
Help topics are provided for reference information about the pages of the administrative console. To display this set of extended help topics, click Help from the console task bar to view online help in a new Web browser. You can also display hover help about individual fields on detail settings pages.
For more information about displaying help information, see Displaying help about console pages.