Compare Websphere Configuration Details : Visual Configuration Explorer (VCE)

I have many websphere 6.x ND clustered servers and growing every single week. Lots of them are upgraded from previous websphere installations to ND 6.x now.

We have admin shell scripts written but they are not portable.  There is diff in naming conventions for profile, Cluster name, Application Server name etc. We have some issues and they all point to diff in configuration settings.

Recently I came across tool called “Visual Configuration Explorer (VCE)”.

Here is a forum for discussions related to this tool:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1139

Getting Started with Visual Configuration Explorer

Download the Workbench component of ISA Version 4.0 for Windows via the following URL:
http://www.ibm.com/software/support/isa/

You may want to go thru this excellent ppt file about IBM Support assistant

http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Headless_Help.txt
http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/VCEHeadlessRuntimeReadme-1.txt