Comments on: WebSphere Adminstration: Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server Scripting

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:22:34 +0000

If you are going to be writing wsadmin scripts, take a look at:

http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0137009526

A good starting article is available on developerWorks:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1004_gibson/1004_gibson.html

By: Girish Varde

Girish Varde — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:36:16 +0000

I have been assigned an automation task of tuning WBM parameters, which requires Python etc. This article helped me to get a start and developed confidence. Earlier I felt there is at all no material on the web. Thanks Alexander.

By: Alexander Ananiev

Alexander Ananiev — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:43:27 +0000

Pavel,
This questions is far from stupid. Global wsadmin objects are instantiated by the underlying wsadmin runtime and are only available in the script’s namespace (where you can just declare them as global, e.g., ‘global AdminConfig’). They would not be available in any of the modules. You can do a number of things to deal with that. I tend to explicitly pass them to my classes or functions, so I make them part of a signature, simply because I dislike global variables in any form. If you really want to use import, you can also do something like this: http://alvinabad.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/websphere-administrative-objects-are-not-accessible-from-imported-jython-modules/

Hope this helps.

By: Pavel Trka

Pavel Trka — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:40:28 +0000

Hello, thank you for fine advices. I have one question – Im going to create some Jython scripts for administering WAS, I wrote some already in notepad but thats painful so I installed PyDev. Please is there any way how to “import” wsadmin objects like AdminConfig etc because now PyDev editor is complaining (”Undefined variable: AdminConfig”) everywhere. Im java pro but jython newbee so pardon me if this question is stupid ;)

Thanks,
Pavel