Human readable documentation current WebSphere configuration

Question

Currently I'm working with a bunch of WebSphere Application Servers for some Java applications. Unfortunately there is poor documentation of the configuration of these servers. I know there a possibilities to generate scripts and configuration archives to migrate these settings. But I was wondering if there is a way to get the server configuration in a human readable format. Does any of you know if there are application servers (WebSphere in particular) that have such a function?

Edit: Forgot to mention that I work with version 6.1 of WebSphere.

Answer 1

I dont know, if you will consider it 'human readable' but you can export the cell configuration in the property based format using following wsadmin task:

AdminTask.extractConfigProperties('[-propertiesFileName  ConfigProperties_cell.props]')

it will give you something like:

#
# SubSection 1.0 # JDBCProvider attributes
#
ResourceType=JDBCProvider
ImplementingResourceType=JDBCProvider
ResourceId=Cell=myCell:JDBCProvider=ID#builtin_jdbcprovider
#

#
#Properties
#
classpath={${DERBY_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH}/derby.jar,/my.jar}
implementationClassName=org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource
name=Derby JDBC Provider (XA)
nativepath={}
description=Built-in Derby JDBC Provider (XA)
providerType=Derby JDBC Provider (XA)
xa=true #boolean

For more details see:

• Extracting properties files using wsadmin scripting
• Using properties files to manage system configuration
• PropertiesBasedConfiguration command group for the AdminTask