WebSphere administrative console features

This topic provides information about features of the WebSphere administrative console. These features can help you navigate the console and perform the tasks described in this documentation.

• Areas of the console
• Preferences settings
• Page features

Areas of the console

These are the main areas of the administrative console:

• Taskbar
  The taskbar is near the top of the browser window of the administrative console. Use the links on the taskbar to perform these basic tasks:
  • Display the administrative console home page.
  • Save changes to the administrative configuration.
  • Set console preferences.
  • Log out of your administrative console session.
  • Access help topics for the console.

• Navigation tree
  The navigation tree on the left side of the console contains links to pages that you use to create and manage components of your WebSphere Application Server - Express application server instance.

• Workspace
  The workspace is on the right side of the console. This area displays the pages that you use to create and manage components of your WebSphere Application Server - Express application server instance.

• WebSphere Status
  The status messages area at the bottom of the console displays error messages and runtime event messages.

Preferences settings

Use the Preferences page to configure these settings for the administrative console:

• Enable disable workspace auto-refresh
• Confirm workspace discards
• Use the default scope
• Hide or show administrative console banner
• Hide or show page and field descriptions

Page features

The workspace area of the console displays collection pages, detail pages, and wizard pages. Administrative console pages include these features:

• Collection pages
  A collection page displays a set of administrative objects.
  • Use the scope settings to filter the contents of an administrative console collection table to a particular cell, node, or server.
    • Cell limits the visibility to all servers on the named cell.
    • Node limits the visibility to all servers on the named node.
    • Server limits the visibility to the named server.
    The server scope has precedence over the node and cell scopes, and the node scope has precedence over the cell scope. Note that objects are created at only one scope, though they might be visible at more than one scope.
  • Use the filter settings to display a subset of the collection.
  • The page preferences settings determine how information is displayed on the collection page.
  • The table of objects lists the object names, and may list one or more additional properties of the objects.
  • The page includes buttons that you use to perform actions on the objects in the collection. For example, you can create a new object, delete an object, or start and stop an object.
  • Each column heading includes buttons to sort the contents of the table in ascending or descending order by a column.

• Detail pages
  Use a detail page to configure a specific administrative object, such as an application server.
  • Configuration tabbed page
    Use this tabbed page to view and modify the configuration of an administrative object.
  • Runtime tabbed page
    Use this tabbed page to view the configuration that is currently in use for the administrative object. For most objects, this page is read-only.
  • Detail pages include buttons that you use to work with the object's configuration.

• Wizard pages
  Use wizard pages to perform a configuration process that includes several steps. A wizard performs a task based on information that you specify.