Oracle WebLogic Server Installation and Configuration Tools for OC4J Users

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3.3 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tools for OC4J Users

The following sections compare the administrations tools available for managing OC4J and Oracle WebLogic Server, as well as a summary of how you perform some typical management tasks in Oracle WebLogic Server: ■ Comparison of OC4J and Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tools ■ Typical Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tasks for OC4J Users

3.3.1 Comparison of OC4J and Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tools

The tools you use to administer an Oracle WebLogic Server domain are different than those you use to administer an OC4J-based environment: ■ Table 3–2 compares the equivalent administration tools for the two products. ■ Table 3–3 describes additional administration tools not available for OC4J. For a complete list of the Oracle WebLogic Server administration tools, see Summary of System Administration Tools and APIs in Introduction to Oracle WebLogic Server. Table 3–2 Comparison of OC4J and Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tools 10g Release 3 10.1.3 Administration Tool Equivalent Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tools More Information Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Note, that an additional Web-based management tool called Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control is also available. You use Fusion Middleware Control to manage the farm and the OPMN-managed components of the farm. Overview of Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Tools in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide admin_client.jar WLST Oracle WebLogic Server command-line scripting tool Getting Started Using the Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool WLST in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide opmnctl opmnctl Note that OPMN is supported in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, but only for managing specific Oracle Fusion Middleware system components. For other configuration tasks in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, such as administering the managed servers in a domain, you use WLST. Getting Started Using Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server Administrators Guide Introduction to Oracle WebLogic Server for OC4J Users 3-9

3.3.2 Typical Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tasks for OC4J Users

The following sections describe some typical administration tasks and you perform them in Oracle WebLogic Server: ■ Starting and Stopping Servers ■ Performing Diagnostics on a Domain ■ Configuring and Tuning Thread Pools

3.3.2.1 Starting and Stopping Servers

You can start and stop OC4J instances using Application Server Control or the OPMN command line opmnctl. Similarly, you can start and stop WebLogic server instances using the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console or the WebLogic Scripting Tool WLST. Additionally, WebLogic server instances can also be started through the start-up scripts available in the bin directory of the domain directory. These scripts include the startWebLogic script for starting the Administration server and the startManagedWebLogic script for starting the managed servers in a domain. For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Managing Server Startup and Shutdown for Oracle WebLogic Server.

3.3.2.2 Performing Diagnostics on a Domain

The diagnostics capabilities of Oracle WebLogic Server are provided through the WebLogic Diagnostics Framework WLDF. For Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, WLFD is among a variaty of tools and processes you can use to monitor and perform diagnostics on your Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. Those tools and processes include the Dynamic Monitoring Service DMS and the Oracle Fusion Middleware Diagnostic Framework. Applications that currently use DMS can continue to do so in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. The WLDF features for Oracle WebLogic Server include dynamic code instrumentation, image capture, watches, and notifications. These features provide Table 3–3 Additional Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Tools Administration Tool Description weblogic.Deployer Oracle WebLogic Server provides a packaged deployment tool, weblogic.Deployer , to provide deployment services for WebLogic Server for ears, wars, rars, jars and other deployment artifact. Any deployment operation that can be implemented using the WebLogic deployment API is implemented, either in part or in full, by weblogic.Deployer. This tool provides similar capabilities to OC4J admin_client.jar for Java EE artifact deployment. In earlier OC4J releases deployment to OC4J was provided by admin.jar and the dcmctl tooling. Ant tasks Oracle WebLogic Server provides a set of administration Ant tasks that allow for the execution of WebLogic Server administrative processes within Apache Ant scripts. These Ant tasks perform a similar type of function as the OC4J Ant tasks. See also: Understanding the Diagnostic Framework in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Performance and Tuning Guide