Chapter 9. Administration Tools
In the preceding chapters, we have covered the core concepts of administering WebSphere Application Server. However, there are a number of other tools available which we have not yet covered. In this chapter, we will be covering a few of the command line tools shipped with WebSphere which provide useful utilities to help you in problem diagnosis when WebSphere or applications are not running as they should.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Dumping namespaces
EAR expander
Application Server Toolkit
Log analysis
Symptom databases
Inspecting J2EE (Enterprise Edition) applications
Dumping namespaces
To diagnose a problem, you might need to collect WebSphere JNDI information. WebSphere Application Server provides a utility that dumps the JNDI namespace. The dumpNamespace.sh
script dumps information about the WebSphere namespace and is very useful when debugging applications when JNDI errors are seen in the WebSphere logs. You can use the utility to dump...