Tool

Description

Prerequisite

Visual Administrator

The Visual Administrator enables you to carry out administration tasks at runtime and to control each individual server service. First, the Visual Administrator must establish a connection to the server.

SAP recommends you use the Visual Administrator. If there are problems using the VA, you can use the other tools.

You need a user (preferably the “administrator”) and password. The default password is “sap” for the user “administrator”.

Console

You can also use the console to perform administrative tasks for each element of the J2EE Cluster (dispatcher or server process). For details see Shell Console Administrator.

Telnet

You can also use Telnet to log on to the console of the cluster element (dispatcher or server process). The procedure is described in Administration of the SAP J2EE Engine Using Telnet.

You have access to a Telnet program. This is normally installed in the standard delivery.

Config tool

You can use the config tool to configure the cluster elements of the SAP J2EE Engine from a remote system. There is a GUI-based and a text-based interface.

With the config tool you can also configure the J2EE Engine while it is offline.

For details see Config Tool.

SAP Management Console

The Management Console displays all the installed components in a hierarchy. When you open the hierarchy, an icon for a server instance appears; this icon may be green, yellow, or gray. The system database is a blue icon.

You have installed the SAP Management Console (on  Windows operating systems only).