WebSphere ESB offers
several interfaces for deploying and administering your mediation modules
and application serving environment, including configurations and logical
administrative domains.
WebSphere ESB uses
the standard WebSphere administrative interfaces as used for WebSphere Application Server and
other related products like WebSphere Process Server.
As a result, many administrative tasks (for example, setting security, viewing
logs, and installing applications), and many terms used, are the same for
both WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Application Server.
- The administrative console
- The administrative console is a browser-based interface that enables users
to configure, monitor, update, stop, and start a wide variety of modules,
services, applications, and resources.
- For more information about the administrative
console, see The administrative console for WebSphere ESB.
- Scripting (wsadmin)
- The WebSphere administrative (wsadmin) scripting program is a non-graphical
command interpreter environment that enables you to run administrative options
in a scripting language and to submit scripting language programs for execution.
It supports the same tasks as the administrative console. The wsadmin tool
is intended for production environments and unattended operations.
- For more information about commands used in scripting specifically for WebSphere Process Server,
see Administrator reference: Commands.
For more information about general scripting with WebSphere Application Server,
see Administrator reference: Scripting interfaces.
- Command-line tools
- Command-line tools are simple programs that you run from an operating
system command-line prompt to perform specific tasks. Using these tools, you
can start and stop application servers, check server status, add or remove
nodes, and other tasks.
- The command-line tools include the serviceDeploy command, which processes
.jar, .ear, .war and .rar files exported from WebSphere Integration Developer and
prepares them for installation to the production server.
- For more information about WebSphere ESB commands, see Reference: Commands.
For more information about WebSphere command-line tools, see Using
command line tools.
- Administrative programs
- A range of application program interfaces can be used to administer WebSphere ESB.
For example, you can use the set of Java classes and methods under the Java
Management Extensions (JMX) specification to administer Service
Component Architecture (SCA) and business objects. Each programming interface
includes a description of its purpose, an example that demonstrates how to
use the interface or class, and references to the individual method descriptions.
- For more information about WebSphere administrative
programs, see Using administrative programs (JMX).