What is WSADMIN?

You can think of WSADMIN as a programming interface to the configuration and management of aWebSphere Application Server cell. With WSADMIN you can programmatically do pretty muchanything you can do in the Admin Console.

What is the primary benefit of WSADMIN?

One of the most common uses of WSADMIN is to automate the installation of applications intoWebSphere. The benefit is that it provides a way to make certain an application is installed in a consistent way in different environments, such as development, QA, test and then production.

Topics covered in the Tutorial:

• Why to Use Scripting?
• What can be done using WSADMIN ?
• Running WSADMIN
• How to use WSADMIN
• WSADMIN has 5 objects
• Using WSADMIN:
  
  • Deploying Applications
  • Starting Applications
  • Stopping Application
  • Updating Application
  • Adding an application server
  • create a new cluster
  • start/stop application servers
  • Checking the status of the servers
• Exercise/Lab

Link to the Tutorial: knol.google.com/k/joseph-amrith-raj/wsad...