Offline and Online WLST

You can use WLST in online mode by connecting to an active Admin or Managed Server. When connected to the Admin Server, you can use WLST to configure a domain. As is the case with the Administration Console, WLST in online mode acts as a Java Management Extensions (JMX) client that manages the domain's resources by modifying the server's Configuration MBeans. Thus, WLST offers you all the domain management configuration capabilities as the Administration Console.

In offline mode, WLST helps you extend a domain, create domain templates, and create domains with those templates. Since you aren't connected to an active Admin Server, you won't be able to modify domain configuration in offline mode. In offline mode, WLST acts ...

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