Summary

In this chapter, you learned what the CLI is and its powerful features. You saw how to connect to it both locally and remotely, where its configuration file is located, and how you can interact with it. You also learned about the use of the Tab key, which helps you out in traversing the whole tree of resources and their operations and attributes.

The CLI needs a little extra time to get acquainted with, but as long as you get used to it, you will become a master of configuring and managing your JBoss platform.

You saw the different approaches to working with the CLI, such as the batch mode, and recalling the batch procedure using the holdback-batch feature. You also saw that by generally using the batch mode along with external .cli files, you can accomplish complex tasks for the operative, standalone, and domain modes.

Additionally, you saw how we can back up our application server configuration by taking snapshots, and how you can use the CLI via its GUI version, which might get you used to it a little faster.

From now on in the book, we will use the CLI as our main tool to manage and configure the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.

In the next chapter, we will see how we can take advantage of the domain mode, and how to configure and create homogeneous servers across different servers, both local and remote.