{"id":9897,"date":"2013-03-15T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javacodegeeks.com\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2013-03-15T01:34:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T23:34:48","slug":"multiple-methods-for-monitoring-and-managing-glassfish-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.javacodegeeks.com\/2013\/03\/multiple-methods-for-monitoring-and-managing-glassfish-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Methods for Monitoring and Managing GlassFish 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

GlassFish 3<\/a> supports multiple methods of monitoring and management. In this post, I look briefly at the approaches GlassFish<\/a> provides for administration, monitoring, and management.<\/p>\n

GlassFish Admin Console<\/h2>\n

GlassFish’s web-based Admin Console GUI<\/a> is probably the best-known interface for GlassFish administration<\/a>. By default, it is accessed via the URL http:\/\/localhost:4848\/<\/code> once GlassFish is running. The two screen snapshots below provide a taste of this approach, but I don’t look any deeper at this option here as this is a fairly easy to understand interface that is fairly easy to learn and use once logged into the website.<\/p>\n

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GlassFish Admin Command Line Interface<\/b><\/p>\n

The GlassFish Admin Console GUI offers advantages of a GUI such as ease of learning and using, but also comes with the drawbacks of a GUI (can take longer to get through the ‘overhead’ of using the GUI approach for things that are easily done from the command line and does not work as well in scripts and headless environments). In some cases, a command-line approach is preferred and GlassFish supports command-line administration with the GlassFish Admin Command Line Interface<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Running asadmin start-domain<\/code> is used to start a Domain in GlassFish. The command asadmin help<\/code> can be used to learn more about the available commands. A very small snippet from the top of this help output is shown next:<\/p>\n

Utility Commands                                      asadmin(1m)\r\n\r\nNAME\r\n     asadmin - utility for performing  administrative  tasks  for\r\n     Oracle GlassFish Server\r\n\r\nSYNOPSIS\r\n     asadmin [--host host]\r\n     [--port port]\r\n     [--user admin-user]\r\n     [--passwordfile filename]\r\n     [--terse={true|false}]\r\n     [--secure={false|true}]\r\n     [--echo={true|false}]\r\n     [--interactive={true|false}]\r\n     [--help]\r\n     [subcommand [options] [operands]]\r\n\r\nDESCRIPTION\r\n     Use the asadmin utility to perform administrative tasks  for\r\n     Oracle GlassFish Server. You can use this utility instead of\r\n     the Administration Console interface.<\/pre>\n
As the beginning of the asadmin help<\/code> indicates, the asadmin<\/code> utility is an alternative to the GUI-based ‘Administration Console interface.’<\/p>\n
There are numerous sub-commands<\/a> available and some of those are listed here:<\/p>\n