Configure remote file services

Configuration data for the WebSphere Application Server product resides in files. Two services help you reconfigure and otherwise manage these files: the file transfer service and file synchronization service. By default, the file transfer service is always configured and enabled at a node agent, so you do not need to take additional steps to configure this service. However, we might need to configure the file synchronization service.

1. Go to the File Synchronization Service page. Click System Administration > Node agents in the console navigation tree. Then, click the node agent for which you want to configure a synchronization server and click File synchronization service.

2. On the File Synchronization Service page, customize the service that helps make configuration data consistent across a cell by moving updated configuration files from the dmgr to the node. Change the values for . The file synchronization service is always started, but we can control how it runs by changing the values.

3. By default if node synchronization fails five times consecutively, automatic synchronization is disabled. To keep automatic synchronization enabled, specify a custom property on the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) of the node agent using the admin console.

   1. Click System Administration > Node Agents > nodeagent. Click on the node agent for which you want to configure the optional custom property.

   2. Under Server Infrastructure, expand Java and Process Management then click Process Definition > Java Virtual Machine > Custom Properties.

   3. Click New.

   4. Specify a name and value for the custom property.

      The com.ibm.websphere.management.sync.allowfailure custom property: To keep automatic synchronization enabled, specify this custom property with a value of true.

      Property	com.ibm.websphere.management.sync.allowfailure
      Data type	Boolean
      Default	False