Start the WebSphere administrative console

To start the administrative console on a workstation, follow these steps:

1. Start the HTTP Server Administration interface.
2. Click the Manage tab.
3. Select your application server from the Server list.
4. (Optional) Enable the adminconsole application if it is not already enabled.
   1. In the navigation menu, click Manage installed applications.
   2. Select the adminconsole application.
   3. Click Properties.
   4. For Application Enablement, select Enabled.
5. To start your application server, click the Start button (  ) at the top of navigation menu. If your application server is running, and you change the Application Enablement property, you must stop and restart the application server.
6. In the navigation menu, click Launch Express Console.

7. When prompted, enter a user ID. The WebSphere administrative console is displayed in the browser window.

   Note: The user ID does not need to be an i5/OS user profile. This user ID is used only to track which users make changes to the application server configuration.

You can also start the console without starting the HTTP Server Administration interface. To use this method, follow these steps:

1. To ensure that the administrative console application is enabled, run the enableAdmin script from a Qshell command line. For information about this script, see Enable the administrative console with the enableAdmin script.

   Note: If the application server is running when you run the enableAdmin script, you must stop and restart the application server. For information about the startServer and stopServer scripts, see these topics:

   • Start an application server with the startServer script
   • Stop an application server with the stopServer script

2. Open this URL in your browser:

   http://your.server.name:port/admin

   where your.server.name is the is the host name of the iSeries server on which your application server is running, and port is the administrative console port as noted in the ready message in the joblog of your application server.

3. When prompted, enter a user ID. The WebSphere administrative console is displayed in the browser window.

   Note: The user ID does not need to be an i5/OS user profile. This user ID is used only to track which users make changes to the application server configuration.