Sun Microsystems 820433510 manual Command-line Interface asadmin Utility, JConsole

Enterprise Server Overview and Concepts

If your configuration includes remote server instances, create node agents to manage and facilitate remote server instances. It is the responsibility of the node agent to create, start, stop, and delete a server instance. Use the command line interface (CLI) commands to set up node agents.

Command-line Interface (asadmin Utility)

The asadmin utility is a command-line interface for the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server. Use the asadmin utility and the commands associated with it to perform the same set of administrative tasks offered by the Admin Console. The default installation root directory on Solaris is /opt/SUNWappserver.

To start the asadmin utility, go to the as-install/bin directory and enter:

$ ./asadmin

To list the commands available within asadmin:

asadmin> help

It is also possible to issue an asadmin command at the shell’s command prompt:

$ asadmin help

To view a command’s syntax and examples, type help followed by the command name. For example:

asadmin> help create-jdbc-resource

The asadmin help information for a given command displays the UNIX man page of the command. These man pages are also available in HTML and PDF format in the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Reference Manual.

JConsole

JConsole is used to monitor the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server. You can use either the JConsole remote tab, or the advanced tab to connect to the Enterprise Server.

■Remote Tab: identify the username, password, administration server host, and JMS port number (8686 by default), and select Connect.

■Advanced Tab: identify the JMXServiceURL as

service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://host:jms-port/jmxrmi and select Connect. The JMXServerURL is printed in the server.log file as well as output in the command window of the domain creation command.

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