20.6. Interactive administration with WSCP

The WebSphere Control Program was principally designed for writing scripts to control the WebSphere Application Server. However, it can be used for interactive administration, and indeed may in some situations be the preferred tool - for instance, if you are separated from your application server machines via a firewall which only allows Telnet traffic through. In this situation, when you cannot connect using a remote administrative console, and you cannot set the GUI to display on your local X server (UNIX), WSCP on the remote server would be the choice.

The following hints are provided to make interactive work with WSCP faster and more efficient from the user’s point of view.

20.6.1. Keeping track ...

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