Create appservers

 

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Overview

If the appserver is going to be part of a cluster, use the...

Create a new cluster wizard

...instead of the...

Create a new appserver wizard

...to create this appserver.

To create a new appserver, you can use wsadmin tasks...

• createApplicationServer
• createWebServer
• createGenericServer

...or you can use the console.

If you are migrating from a previous version of WAS, you can upgrade a portion of the nodes in a cell, while leaving others at the older product level. This means that, for a period of time, you might be managing servers running at two different release levels in the same cell. However, when you create a new server definition, use a server configuration template, and that template must be created from a server instance that matches the version of the node on which you are creating a server.

There are no restrictions on what you can do with the servers running on the newer release level.

You can perform the following steps to create a new appserver from the console.

 

Procedure

1. In the console, click either...

   Servers | Application servers | New

   ...to create a new appserver or...

   Servers | Clusters

   ...where you can either...

   • Click New if this appserver is the first member of a new cluster, or

   • Click on the name of an existing cluster to make this appserver a new member of that cluster.

   Both options start the Create a new cluster wizard.

2. Select a node for the appserver.

3. Type in a name for the appserver. The name must be unique within the node.

4. Click Next.

5. Select a server template for the new server.

   You can use a default appserver template for your new server or you can use the template that is optimized to perform well for development uses. The new appserver inherits all of the configuration settings of the template server.

6. Click Next and then select...

   Generate Unique HTTP Ports

   ...if you want the wizard to generate unique ports for the appserver. By default, this option is enabled. If you select this option, you might need to update the alias list for the virtual host that you plan to use with this server to contain these new port values. If you deselect this option, ensure that the default port values do not conflict with other servers on the same physical machine.

7. Click Next. Review the settings for the new server. To change any of the settings, click Previous until you return to a page where you can change that setting. If you do not want to make any changes, click Finish

8. Click Review, select Synchronize changes with Nodes, and then click Save to save your changes.

 

Results

The new appserver appears in the list of servers on the console Application servers page.

 

What to do next

This newly created appserver is configured with many default settings. To view all of the configuration settings for this appserver in the console, click...

Servers | Application servers application_server

If necessary, use this page to change the configuration settings for this server.

You can also set the...

client.encoding.override

...JVM argument to UTF-8 if use multiple language encoding support in the console.

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Create server templates
List server templates
Delete server templates

 

Related concepts

Application servers

 

Related tasks

Configure appservers for UCS Transformation Format
Get started with scripting
Add members to a cluster

 

Related Reference

Commands for the AdminTask object