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This topic describes the overall portlets layout and features you can utilize within Administration Console.

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Overview

The Geronimo Administration Console is a Web based interface that provides a convenient, user-friendly way to administer many aspects of the Geronimo server. Once you have the Apache Geronimo server started (see Starting and stopping the server) you can access the Administration Console by pointing your browser to the following URL:

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#Welcome
#Server
#Services
#Applications
#Security
#Embedded DB
#Debug Views

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Welcome Welcome

This is the welcome page you see when you log in. It provides a general description of what the Geronimo Administration Console is and some shortcut links to common tasks such as:

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Server AnchorServerServer

Organized under the Server group you will find statistical information as well as links for configuring and administering the different servers. This group is organized as follows:

#Information
#Java System Info
#Server Logs
#Shutdown
#Web Server
#Thread Pools
#Apache HTTP
Image Added #JAR Aliases
#Monitoring
#JMS Server
#EJB Server

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Information Information

This portlet displays server information such as the version, start time and up time. In addition, it also provides information about the JVM such as Java Version, Vendor, Node, and Server Memory Usage.

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Java System Info Java System Info

This portlet displays the values of the system properties available to the server process.

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Server Logs Server Logs

This option provides four portlets, Log Manager, Server Log Viewer, Web Access Log Viewer and Derby Log Viewer.

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  • Derby Log Viewer
    This portlet displays the log file for Geronimo's internal database, Derby.

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Shutdown Anchor ShutdownShutdown

Clicking Shutdown will shutdown the server and cause the JVM to exit. To continue using the Geronimo Console after a shutdown, Geronimo must be restarted.

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Web Server AnchorWeb ServerWeb Web Server

This option provides two portlets, Web Server Manager and Network Listeners.

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Thread Pools Anchor Thread PoolsThread Pools

This portlet lists all the thread pools defined in the server. It shows the pool size and allows you to monitor individually each of the listed thread pools. By monitoring these threads you can gather statistical information such as pool max, lowest recorded, highest recorded and threads in use.

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Apache HTTP Anchor Apache HTTPApache HTTP

This portlet is a wizard that walks you through the process of configuring Apache Geronimo to use a remote Apache 2 HTTP server. To configure the remote HTTP server you will need to install the mod_jk Apache module on the remote server. Based on a series of questions the wizard will guide you through the configuration process.

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JAR AliasesJAR Aliases

This portlet is used to manage existing artifact aliases on Geronimo server, which means user can update the artifact_aliases.properties file directly on the server Console.

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Monitoring Monitoring AnchorMonitoringMonitoring

The Geronimo monitoring plug-in is broken down between server and client plug-ins, referred to as the 'Agent' and 'Console' respectively. When properly setup, these plug-ins provide both local and remote real-time JSR77 compliant statistic monitoring, as well as historical tracking of any exposed statistic with visual representations drawn in the form of graphs through the Dojo Toolkit's dojoX Charting packages. Starting from v2.2, this portlet is optional, you can enable it by installing a plugin from Geronimo repository.

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JMS Server Anchor JMS ServerJMS Server

This option provides two portlets, JMS Server Manager and JMS Network Listeners.

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  • JMS Network Listeners
    This portlet displays all the network connectors configured for the currently available JMS Brokers. From this portlet you can also start, stop, edit, add and delete JMS network connectors. Some connectors available to be added to ActiveMQ are tcp, stomp, vm, udp and multicast listeners.

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EJB Server EJB Server

This portlet provides all EJB statistics deployed in the server including stateless(stateful) Containers, CMP(BMP) Entity Containers and Message Driven Containers. By default, Geronimo is using Openejb as its EJB 3.0 implementation.

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Services Services

Organized under this group you will find links for configuring the following services:

#Repository
#Database Pools
#JMS Resources

Repository Anchor RepositoryRepository

This portlet provides two functionalities. It assists in adding an archive into the Repository. Secondly it displays the artifacts installed in the server's repository. The layout of the repository is the same as that used by Apache Maven making it possible to easily copy files over. From this portlet you can also install new artifacts .

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and remove existing ones.

Database Pools Database Pools

This portlet displays all the available database pools and their status. Only server-wide database pools can be edited in this portlet, database pools deployed as part of a single application cannot, you will have to change the deployment plan in the application instead.

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This portlet includes a database pool creation wizard for new pools and also lets you import database pools from JBoss 4 and WebLogic 8.1.

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JMS Resources JMS Resources

This portlet lists all the JMS resource groups and states available in the Geronimo server, that is queues and factories. From this portlet you can create new JMS resource groups, this portlet provides two wizards, one for ActiveMQ and one for another JMS provider. For the latter you will have to provide the specific resource adapter RAR needed to connect to that particular provider.

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Applications AnchorApplicationsApplications

Organized under this group you will find links for installing and administering applications.

#Web App WARs
#System Modules
#Application EARs
#EJB JARs
J2EE Connectors
#App Clients
#Deploy New
#Plugins
#Plan Creator

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Web App WARs AnchorWeb App WARs Web App WARs

This portlet displays the installed Web applications and their status. From this portlet you can also stop, start and uninstall the available Web applications.

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System Modules Anchor System ModulesSystem Modules

This portlet displays the installed System Modules and their status. From this portlet you can also stop, start and uninstall the available System Modules.

In addition, this portlet makes use of the "Expert Mode" feature as described here.

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Application EARs Application EARs

This portlet displays the installed Application EARs and their status. From this portlet you can also stop, start and uninstall the available application EARs.

In addition, this portlet makes use of the "Expert Mode" feature as described here.

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EJB JARs EJB JARs

This portlet displays the installed EJB JARs and their status. From this portlet you can also stop, start and uninstall the available EJB JARs.

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J2EE Connectors AnchorJ2EE_CJ2EE_C

This portlet displays the installed J2EE connectors and their status. From this portlet you can also stop, start and uninstall the available J2EE Connectors.

In addition, this portlet makes use of the "Expert Mode" feature as described here.

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App Clients App Clients

This portlet displays the installed application clients and their status. From this portlet you can also stop, start and uninstall the available application clients.

In addition, this portlet makes use of the "Expert Mode" feature as described here.

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Applications

Deploy New Deploy New

This portlet allows you to deploy new applications to the Apache Geronimo server. Web applications require deployment plans, which are either packaged with the war file or kept in a separate file which is typically called geronimo-web.xml.

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Plugins Plugins

This portlet allows you to install or create Geronimo plugins. From this portlet you can select a remote plugins repository and search for available plugins and install them or export to plugins just about any module you have already installed in Geronimo. In addition you can create custom assembly server packages built with only the modules you specify.

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Plan Creator Plan Creator

This portlet features assisting you in creating a Geronimo Deployment Plan. Currently only supporting WAR files. For details visit the Creating deployment plans using the deployment plan wizard section. Starting from v2.2, this portlet is optional, you can enable it by installing a plugin from Geronimo repository.

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Security Anchor SecuritySecurity

#Users and Groups
#Keystores
#Certificate Authority
#Security Realm

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AnchorUsers and Groups Users and Groups

This option provides two portlets, Console Realm Users and Console Realm Groups.

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  • Console Realm Groups
    This portlet displays all the Console Realm Groups and allows you to add, modify and delete them.

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Keystores Keystores

This portlet walks you through the process of configuring keystores to use with SSL connectors. From this portlet you can add or edit keystores, add Trust Certificates and create private keys.

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Certificate Authority Certificate Authority

This portlet allows you to create a Certification Authority (CA) in Geronimo and issue certificates in reply to Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs). Click here for more detailed instructions.

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Security Realm Security Realm

This portlet displays all available security realms and their status. Only server-wide security realms can be edited in this portlet. Security realms deployed as part of a single application cannot, and you will have to change the deployment plan in the application instead.

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This portlet also includes a security realm creation wizard for creating new realms.

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Embedded DB Embedded DB

Organized under this group you will find links:

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  • Run SQL
    This portlet lets you run SQL commands to manipulate the data in the tables, create a new database or delete a database. You can enter the SQL commands in the SQL Command(s) text box, select the database that will be used and then click on Run SQL to execute the command.

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Debug Views AnchorDebug ViewsDebug Views

Organized under this group you will find links:

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