Result: Control WebSphere with WSADMIN: Learn how to administer WebSphere Application Server 5.1 using the WebSphere WSADMIN tool.

The article focuses on WSADMIN which is the administration tool that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) introduced in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.0, replacing the WebSphere Control Program (WSCP). WSADMIN is more than just a simple command-line option for WAS administration; it's a complete environment that gives you complex scripting and programmatic control of your WAS servers. The article describes the basics of WSADMIN and shows how one can use it. WSADMIN is a scripting interface that uses the Bean Scripting Framework (BSF). BSF lets one communicate with Java objects via scripting languages such as JavaScript, Jacl, or Jython. The objects with which the BSF communicates are WebSphere Java Management Extensions managed beans, which are used by the management objects. In less formal terms, WSADMIN lets you use the command-line and/or scripting languages to communicate with built-in objects to control virtually all parts of WAS. Some of the benefits of WSADMIN include the ability to issue WebSphere administrative commands remotely via Telnet, in batch mode, or directly without the HTML user interface.