Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server

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Chapter 9 – Administering Community Edition
This chapter discusses how to administer the Community Edition server using the
administrative console and the command line.
In this chapter you will learn about:
• Working with the Community Edition administrative console (admin console)
• Configuring the server
• Working with the Community Edition repository
• Administering applications
• Configuring multiple server instances
9.1 Administering Community Edition: The big picture
Figure 9.1 provides an overview of how you can administer a Community Edition server. In
the figure, the Community Edition admin console can be used to administer server,
services, security, debug views and the embedded DB depicted on the left side of the
figure. It can also be used to add JARs into Community Edition and manage applications
as shown on the right side. The command line provides a series of sub-commands for
managing server, applications and JARs.