Introduction to WebSphere administration console | WebSphere Tutorial pdf

Introduction to WebSphere administration console:

The WebSphere administrative console is the graphical, Web -based tool that you use to configure and manage an entire WebSphere cell. It supports the full range of product administrative activities, such as creating and managing resources, applications, viewing product messages, and so on. The configuration data is stored as a set of XML documents arranged in a set of cascading directories under <profile_home>/config directory for each profile.
In a single server installation, the administrative console is located on the application server and can be used to configure and manage the resources of that server only.
In a multi-server environment with Network Deployment, the administrative console is located in the deployment manager server, dmgr. In this case, the administrative console provides centralized administration of multiple nodes, and nodes on multiple machines. Configuration changes are made to the master repository XML configuration files and pushed to the local XML repositories on the nodes by the deployment man ager. In order for the administrative console to run, the dmgr server must be running. In order for the changes to the master repository to be pushed to the nodes, the node agents must also be running in the nodes where the WebSphere Application Server ins tances are installed.
In WebSphere Application Server V6, the administrative console groups administrative tasks into the following categories:
=> Servers
=> Applications
=> Resources
=> Security
=> Environment
=> System administration
=> Monitoring and tuning
=> Troubleshooting
=> Service integration
=> UDDI