Configure WAS ND after installation

 

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Overview

This topic summarizes how to configure the application serving environment.

Use the First steps console to configure and test the WAS environment after creating a profile.

This procedure starts the second and final step of ND installation. This second step creates and configures server processes by creating profiles.

 

Procedure

  1. At the end of product installation, select the Launch the Profile Management tool check box to create a deployment manager profile.

    This step creates the deployment manager and the cell. Later steps in this procedure create an appserver profile and optionally, a custom profile.

  2. Start the First steps console by selecting the check box on the last panel of the wizard.

    The First steps console for the deployment manager profile can start automatically at the end of profile creation. Select the check box on the last panel of the Profile Management tool.

    The First steps console is an easy way to start using the product. The console provides one-stop access to...

  3. Click Installation verification on the First steps console.

    The installation verification test starts the deployment manager process named dmgr and runs several tests to verify that the dmgr process can start without error.

  4. Click Profile Management tool on the First steps console to create an appserver profile.

  5. Start the First steps console by selecting the check box on the last panel of the Profile Management tool.

    This First steps console belongs to the Application Server profile that you just created. Each profile has its own First steps console.

  6. Click Installation verification on the First steps console.

    The installation verification test starts the new appserver process named server1 and runs several tests to verify that the server1 process can start without error.

  7. Federate the appserver into the deployment manager cell.

    If both server processes are running, use the console of the deployment manager to add the appserver node into the cell.

    Point your browser at...

    http://localhost:9060/ibm/console

    ...for example, to start the console. Or start it from the First steps console of the deployment manager profile.

    Log in and click...

    System administration | Nodes | Add Node

    ...and follow the wizard to add the node into the cell. You can use localhost for the Host field if both processes are on the same machine. The SOAP port for the appserver node is 8880 unless you changed the port during profile creation.

    If the deployment manager is running, you can use the addNode command instead. See addNode command.

  8. Optional: Click Profile Management tool on the First steps console to create a custom profile.

    Verify that the deployment manager is running. The Profile Management tool can federate the custom node for you if the deployment manger is running.

    Supply the host name and the SOAP port for the deployment manager while creating the custom profile.

    Choose to federate the custom node into the deployment manager cell. A custom profile must be part of a cell.

    Use the deployment manager to customize the node at your leisure. Add servers, add clusters, and install applications on the node, for example.

 

Results

This procedure results in configuring and testing the appserver environment.

 

What to do next

See Planning to install ND for diagrams of topologies that you can create using the First steps console and the Profile Management tool.


firststeps command
Use the installation verification tools

 

Related Reference

manageprofiles command
addNode best practices