Using ZIETrans administrative console

The ZIETrans administrative interface can be used to manage connections and perform problem determination for ZIETrans Web applications. This chapter describes how you can use these management functions.

You can include the ZIETrans administrative console support files with the set of ZIETrans applications contained within an Enterprise Archive (.ear) file deployed to WebSphere® Application Server. The deployed .ear file provides a runtime environment, in which the ZIETrans administrative console enables you to manage ZIETrans applications. If you include the ZIETrans administrative console files in multiple projects, more than one administrative console can be started using different application names; however, each administrative console provides the same views and functions.

Instead of including the ZIETrans administrative console support files in each .ear file, you can create an .ear file that contains only ZIETrans administrative console files. When you deploy this .ear file, you can start the ZIETrans administrative console and change the management scope to remotely manage ZIETrans applications in multiple .ear files with one instance of the administrative console. The deployed ZIETrans administrative console application gives you a single point of administration for all ZIETrans applications. When you create a new ZIETrans project, you specify whether to include ZIETrans administrative console files in the project. If you create a ZIETrans administrative console project, you no longer need to add the administration support files to other projects you create.

To create a ZIETrans administrative console project in ZIETrans Toolkit, follow the path File > New > Project > ZIETrans > ZIETrans Administration Project. You should specify an Enterprise Application project name that uniquely identifies this project as the ZIETrans administrative console project. The ZIETrans administrative console project only appears in ZIETrans Toolkit on the Navigator tab. Deploy the .ear file you created to WebSphere Application Server and start it (see Starting ZIETrans administrative console). To change the scope of management for the ZIETrans administrative console project, refer to Selecting management scope.

Other administration topics are described in Display terminal functions.