WLST Offline vs WLST Online

Hey Middleware automation expert, Welcome to my Post. Working with WLST we have two different sections of commands available they are defined as: 1. Off-line WLST (default shell)

2. Online WLST mode (after connecting admin)

 

WLST Offline: 

The WLST offline configuration commands analogous to the Configuration Wizard. You just need to know the navigation on the WebLogic configuration MBean trees, modify the MBean attribute values. Internally this WLST offline commands works on WebLogic domain Configuration Framework, the Configuration Wizard also uses it.
Consistent results when using either tool read and write access to the configuration data that is persisted in the domain’s config directory or in a domain template JAR

These WLST offline commands intended to create a domain or modify a non-running domain. Used during WLS install to create samples domains

WLST Online: 

The WLST online commands are analogous to the Administration Console changes after connecting to admin server. WLST Online mode is a Java Management Extension (JMX) client it allow you to interact with in-memory runtime Management Beans (MBeans). In the online administrator intended use the runtime management tools: configuration,
management, deployment, monitoring.
When you use connect() command at offline it will transfer your prompt to ServerConfig that indicates online command mode. Where the commands will execute directly on running/ active resources.
The following table shows the major differences between
Offline, Online commands:

WLST Offline vs WLST Online

WLST Offline	WLST Online
1.WLST Offline commands can do: a) Create/modify domain templates b) Create domains c) Extend an existing domains by access and modify the configuration for an offline domain 2. WLST Offline mode commands can’t do: a) View runtime performance data b) Modify security data	1. WLST Online commands can do: a) Change configuration when servers are in RUNNING state b) View runtime data for monitoring various runtime MBeans performances c) Deploy applications targeting to Servers or clusters d) Start and stop servers or cluster members. 2. WLST Online commands can’t do the following: a) Create a new domain (must be offline mode) you can only update an existing domain configuration.
3. Default interactive mode will be in offline mode	3. The offline connect() command changes to online, disconnect() command used to come back to offline. Mostly script mode is useful.
4. Configuring resources like JDBC, JMS can be assigned with assign() command to targets.	4. Configuring resources required set command with Targets as argument and committing the changes with save(), activate() commands.
5. The Offline commands are executed faster	5. Online commands are slower because they have to interact with live objects.

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