Using the Administration Console

WebLogic Server offers a browser-based Administration Console to help manage a domain The Admin Server hosts the Administration Console application, and you can access the Console from any browser which has network access to the Admin Server.

The Administration Console lets you administer your entire domain—the server instances, web applications, modules, and all the resources that the applications and modules need to use. Not only can you configure and monitor the servers, you can create new server instances with the console. The console also helps you tune your applications. The console makes it easy for you perform various configuration and management tasks without having to learn how to use the underlying JMX API, which is what you need to manually configure the domains. In Chapter 2, you'll learn the various ways in which you can start and stop WebLogic Server instances. The easiest as well as the recommended way to manage your servers is through the Administration Console. You can even edit and save changes to the domain configuration file, config.xml, through the console. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to configure various aspects of WebLogic Server through the Administration Console.