I started a new project on OpenNTF for the collection of scripts we created to speed up and simplify WebSphere and Connections Administration.

Link to this project: Administration Scripts for WebSphere

In the moment most of documentation is only as comment in these scripts. Descriptions can be found in Github and Scripting101 .

Highlights

• J2EE Security Role Backup and Restore

• Set initial Security Roles for Connections Applications (Author: Klaus Bild )

Documentation

When you want to start with this collection, copy the jython script to your Deployment Manager bin-folder ($WAS_HOME/profiles/Dmgr01/bin) and call the scripts with wsadmin.sh -f scriptname

I’m really impressed of the WAS 8 installation. Install Manager can handle multiple repositories, so you can install the core package and updates in one step. That’s lots faster than installing WAS 7, Update Installer and the fixes.

Yes i know Ubuntu is unsupported for WebSphere Application Server, but i like the simple install and update process. So i use it on about 80 % of my linux testsystems and i have no problems when installing IBM Domino, WebSphere, DB2 or Connections.

Additional software for Ubuntu

I added the following packages to Ubuntu and use x-forward for installing IM and WAS.

I read today the requirements for IBM Connections 4.5 , which will be released on 29th of march. On point there is WebSphere Application Server V8.0.0.5 for Network Deployment.

WebSphere Application Server V8 must be installed through Install Manager, so you have to download 4 packages for the server core and 4 packages for supplements. After this the fixes for 8.0.0.5, what do you think you many data will it be?

You will download more than 10 GB of Software only for WebSphere Installation! 6.x GB for V8 and about 5 GB for fixes.

Here the Software (with some DB2 stuff):

Because i had several issues with automated renewed ssl and ltpa keys on my websphere servers, i found this article on the blog of Mitch Cohen : http://www.curiousmitch.com/2009/06/disabling-automatic-ltpa-key-generation-in-was-or-how-to-stopsso-between-was-and-domino-from-breaking/

Perhaps this is interesting for more people.