3.2 Building a system using profiles

During the planning cycle, a topology was selected for the WAS environment. There are many topologies to choose from, each with its own unique features.

However, when we discuss using profiles to build a WAS environment, we are focusing on the WAS processes or daemons for z/OS. Regardless of the topology you select, there are really only two primary situations to consider when deciding which profiles create:

-	You plan to create one or more stand-alone appservers. We will refer to this as a stand-alone server environment.

-	You plan to create a deployment manager and one or more nodes with appservers. We refer to the appservers in this environment as managed servers. These nodes can coexist or reside on different machines. We refer to this as a distributed server environment.

The following topics will give the basic steps for each. You can extend this to suit your own environment.

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