Provision SharePoint Central Administration

The SharePoint Central Administration site is use to do administration tasks for SharePoint Products and Technologies from a central location. You can provision and unprovision it by using the psconfig.exe command-line tool with the adminvs command. Provisioning creates a new SharePoint Central Administration Web application and an application pool running under the server farm administrator's account, whereas unprovisioning removes the SharePoint Central Administration Web application and its application pool.

Below are example commands to manage the SharePoint Central Administration web application on the local computer:

>> create new central administration (provision)

psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -provision -port 8080 -windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm


>> delete central administration (unprovision)

psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -unprovision


For more details on how to use psconfig.exe commands, please check this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263093(office.12).aspx