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About application server administration – Sun Microsystems 2005Q2 User Manual

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Variable Name

Description and Path

install-dir

By default, the Application Server installation directory is located
here:

Solaris Java Enterprise System installations:
/opt/SUNWappserver/appserver

Linux Java Enterprise System installations:
/opt/sun/appserver/

Windows Java Enterprise System installations:
SystemDrive:\Sun\ApplicationServer

Solaris and Linux stand-alone Application Server installations,
non-root user: user_home_directory/SUNWappserver

Solaris and Linux stand-alone Application Server installations,
root user: /opt/SUNWappserver

Windows stand-alone installations:
SystemDrive:\Sun\AppServer

domain_root_dir

By default, the directory containing all domains is located here:

Solaris Java Enterprise System installations:
/var/opt/SUNWappserver/domains/

Linux Java Enterprise System installations:
/var/opt/sun/appserver/domains/

All other installations: install-dir/domains/

domain_dir

By default, domain directories are located here: domain_root_dir
/

domain_dir

About Application Server
Administration

To enable administrators to manage server instances and clusters running on multiple
hosts, Application Server provides these tools:

The Admin Console, a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI)

The asadmin utility, a command-line tool

Programmatic Java™ Management Extensions (JMX™) APIs

These tools connect to a server called the Domain Administration Server, a specially
designated Application Server instance that intermediates in all administrative tasks.
The Domain Administration Server (DAS) provides a single secure interface for
validating and executing administrative commands regardless of which interface is
used.

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Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Quick Start Guide