Remote deployment to Websphere 6.1.x using wsadmin

I am trying to remotely deploy a war file to a websphere application server. I understand this is possible to do using wsadmin, but I am a Websphere newb.

I know I can run wsadmin and connect using SOAP to the remote app server, but that is where I am at.

This seems like it should be a common use case, can anyone help me with?

I suppose the use case follows: 1. Update the ap开发者_开发百科plication 2. Save all changes 3. Restart the remote application server

I am going to do the deployment using either Hudson WAS Builder or Maven, whichever works.

Thanks for your help

This question is pretty old, but id like to show how we do this remotly. In this case with Ant

<target name="postbuild">
    <exec executable="C:\MyThinClient\wsadmin.bat" failonerror="true">
        <arg line="-conntype SOAP -host ${deployServer} -port ${deployPort} -user ${deployUser} -password ${deployPassword} -c" />
        <arg value="$AdminApp update ${projectName}EAR app {-operation update -contents {${artifactsDir}/${projectName}-${buildVersion}.ear}}" />
    </exec>
</target>

Given the correct setup of the wsadmin.bat you can run this from any server (without WAS installed) At least on WAS 6.1/7.0 ND this will only restart the application with the new binaries, not the whole server

Since the WAS Builder Plugin is relatively new, I haven't tested it (The evaluation is already on the ToDo list). For running deployments from the command line we use jython-scripts and wsadmin. My understanding is that I need to be on the machine where I want to deploy. You can deploy to a different machine id your local wsadmin is on the level than your target machine (same version and same feature packs).

for more information on wsadmin see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdoc400/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.iseries.doc/info/ae/ae/rxml_commandline.html

BTW, when you deploy using the web based admin console, there is a link somewhere at the end of the deployment process that shows you the jython command. Don't use jacl, since WAS 7 only uses jython.

The link to the scripts didn't show up right in my comment, so here it is: IBM SAMPLE SCRIPTS