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The table below shows an overview of the J2EE Engine administration tools.

Administration Tools

Tool

Description

Prerequisite

Visual Administrator

The Visual Administrator enables you to carry out administration tasks at runtime and to control each individual J2EE Engine service. First, the Visual Administrator should establish a connection to the server.

Recommendation Recommendation

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

End of the recommendation.

You need a user (preferably with administrator permissions) and password.

SAP NetWeaver Administrator

The SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA) unifies the most important administration and monitoring tools both for Java and for ABAP systems in a new, browser-based user interface. The most important advantages of the NWA are:

  • You no longer need to switch between different tools for administration, troubleshooting, and problem analysis of your entire SAP NetWeaver system landscape.

  • There is a central administration tool available to you landscape-wide for both Java and ABAP systems for starting and stopping instances, checking configuration settings and logs, and monitoring error-free functioning of components.

  • The interface follows the current guidelines for interface design, is easy-to-use and task-oriented. By using Web Dynpro, it runs in a browser.

Shell Console Administrator

You can also use the console to perform administrative tasks for each element of the J2EE Cluster (dispatcher or server process).

To use the Shell Console Administrator, you have to connect through Telnet. For more information, see Connecting and Working Using Telnet.

Config Tool

You can use the Config Tool to configure the cluster elements of the 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.

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).

System Landscape Directory (SLD)

A modern computing environment consists of a number of hardware and software components that depend on each other with regard to installation, software updates, and demands on interfaces. This so-called system landscape can be very complex and hard to maintain. The System Landscape Directory (SLD) serves as a central information repository for your system landscape.