Introducing WebLogic Remote Console 3.x!

WebLogic Remote Console 3.x is a substantial design update that delivers significant usability improvements to WebLogic Remote Console.

We’ve also made considerable cosmetic updates in 3.0.0. MBeans and their configurations remain in the same places, they just look a little different. You can continue to refer to the documentation for the latest GA release of WebLogic Remote Console for guidance on how to administer your domains.

To help you understand what has changed, we’ve outlined some of the major functional differences below.

Key Differences Between 2.x and 3.x

• Enhanced Project management: Project management has been moved out of the File menu into its own dedicated page where you can add, edit, and delete projects and their constituent providers.

• Improved Provider management: The Providers drawer has been re-imagined as a dedicated page where you can see all of the providers (and their details) in a project at a glance. You can add, edit, delete, and sort providers from this page.

• Changes to Change Management:

  • Improved Shopping Cart: Pending changes are now visible in a dialog box where you can see where the change was made and the old and new values.
  • Change indicators: Configurations with non-default values are now marked by a green bar to the left of the field. Previously, changes were indicated by a black outline.
  • Unsaved changes: WebLogic Remote Console no longer warns you when you try to leave a page that has unsaved changes. Previously, WebLogic Remote Console would ask you to confirm whether to save or discard your changes before letting you navigate away.

• Clearer and sharper icons: Icons throughout WebLogic Remote Console have been updated to more clearly convey their functions. See Page Icons and Field Icons.

  • Rearranged tool bar icons: Tool bar icons have been shifted around to better group functionality and workflow.

• New-ish Field Settings button: This button allows for more granular editing of field values. It opens a separate dialog box where you can edit values, review lengthy field values, or revert existing values to their default values (that is, “unset” them). The Field Settings button will be familiar to users who managed WDT model files in WebLogic Remote Console.

• Consolidated Navigation Tree: The NavStrip and Navigation Tree have been combined into a single panel, allowing you to switch between perspectives more intuitively.

• More sophisticated Breadcrumb navigation: Move up, down, and across nodes of WebLogic Remote Console. Use the breadcrumb trail to not only help you understand your position within the domain, but to move through it.

  Each breadcrumb in the trail is clickable so you can move up levels in the hierarchy, or you can click the dropdown menu beside the final breadcrumb (aka the current page) to jump to its child nodes or to its related pages in different perspectives.

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Installing WebLogic Remote Console 3.0.0

For the duration of the tech preview, WebLogic Remote Console 3.0.0 will only be available by downloading Desktop WebLogic Remote Console from the WebLogic Remote Console GitHub repository.

The production release of WebLogic Remote Console 3.x will include both Desktop WebLogic Remote Console and Hosted WebLogic Remote Console and will be released concurrently with a future Patch Set Update (PSU) of WebLogic Server.

1. Make sure your environment meets the system requirements needed to run WebLogic Remote Console. The system requirements for 3.0.0 are the same as the latest GA release of WebLogic Remote Console. See System Requirements.

2. Go to the WebLogic Remote Console GitHub repository Releases page and from the Release 3.0.0 section, download the WebLogic Remote Console installer meant for your operating system.

3. If you’re jumping from WebLogic Remote Console 2.4.17 or earlier, you should also download the WebLogic Remote Console extension for 3.0.0 and install it manually. (The 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 extensions are compatible with WebLogic Remote Console 3.0.0).

   1. Download the extension from the Release 3.0.0 section. If you are running a 15.1.1.0.0 WebLogic Server domain, download console-rest-ext-jakarta-3.0.0.war. Otherwise, download console-rest-ext-3.0.0.war.

   2. Shut down the Administration Server.

   3. Under DOMAIN_HOME/, create a folder and name it management-services-ext.

   4. Save the extension file, console-rest-ext-3.0.0.war or console-rest-ext-jakarta-3.0.0.war, under management-services-ext/.

      Do not deploy the WebLogic Remote Console extension as an application in your domain.

   5. Restart the Administration Server.

4. Install WebLogic Remote Console by following the typical process for installing applications on your operating system.

5. Open WebLogic Remote Console and connect to a provider.

Connecting to a Provider

1. Open WebLogic Remote Console.
2. Click Create and choose a Provider type. See Provider Types.
3. Fill in the necessary connection information. For more detailed steps:
   • For an Admin Server Connection Provider, see Connect to an Administration Server.
   • For a WDT Model File Provider, see Create a WDT Model File or Upload a WDT Model File.
   • For a WDT Composite Model Provider, see Create a WDT Composite Model.
   • For a Property List Provider, see Create a Property List.
4. Click Done to save the provider.
5. Click Connect/Activate.

• If you want to see the current provider’s details, click the Kebab menu beside the breadcrumb navigation and then click Provider Information. A dialog box with the provider’s details will open.

• If you want to edit a provider’s details, click the Kebab menu beside the breadcrumb navigation and then click Go to Project/Provider Table. Select the provider you want to edit. After making your changes, click Save.

Page Icons

Field Icons

Managing Projects

You can use projects to organize your providers in a way that makes sense for your workflow.

1. While in a provider, click the Kebab menu beside the breadcrumb navigation and then click Go to Project/Provider Table.

   The Project/Provider table lists all provider connections in a project and is your central place for managing providers in the project. For the current project you can also add more providers, edit existing providers, connect to a different provider, re-order providers, and delete providers.

   

   Tip: Use the Customize Table menu to control which columns are visible in the Provider Details table.

2. In the breadcrumbs trail, click Projects.

   

3. Click Create to create a new project.

   You can also import or export a project (and its provider connection details) from the Projects page.

4. Select the new project and then click Create to add a provider to the project.

To switch between projects, return to the Projects page by clicking Projects in the breadcrumb trail and then selecting a different project.

To get back to the active provider (or switch to another provider in the project), select the project that contains the active provider, then, in the Project/Provider table, select the active provider. Click Connect/Activate.