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Manage node agents
Node agents are admin agents that represent a node to your system and manage the servers on that node. Node agents monitor application servers on a host system and route administrative requests to servers. Before you can manage a node agent, install the WAS ND.
If you plan to change the system clock, stop all the application servers, the node agent servers, the dmgr server, the admin agent server, and the job manager server first. After you stop the servers, change the system clock, and then restart the servers. If you change the system clock on one system, ensure the clocks on all systems that communicate with each other and have WAS installed are synchronized. Otherwise, you might experience errors, such as security tokens no longer being valid.
A node agent is a server that is created automatically when a node is added to a cell. A node agent runs on every host computer system that participates in the WAS ND. We can view information about a node agent, stop and start the processing of a node agent, stop and restart application servers on the node that is managed by the node agent, and so on.
A node agent is purely an admin agent and is not involved in application serving functions. A node agent also hosts other important administrative functions, such as file transfer services, configuration synchronization, and performance monitoring.
We can manage nodes through the wsadmin scripting tool, through the Java API, or through the administrative console. To manage nodes on an application server through the administrative console.
Procedure
- View information about a node agent. Click System Administration > Node agents in the console navigation tree.
To view additional information about a particular node agent or to further configure a node agent, click the node agent name under Name.
IP verions: Both IPv4 (IPv4) and IPv6 (IPv6) are now supported by WAS, but there are restrictions that apply to using both IPv4 and IPv6 in the same cell. Note that when a node is added to a cell, the format in which the name is specified is based on the version of IP the node will be using.
- Stop and then restart the processing of a node agent. On the Node agents page, select the check box beside the node agent to restart; then click Restart. It is important to keep a node agent running because a node agent must be running for application servers on the node managed by the node agent to run.
- Stop and then restart all of the application servers on the node that is managed by the node agent. On the Node agents page, select the check box beside the node agent that manages the node with servers to restart, and click Restart all servers on node.
Click Restart all servers on node also stops and then restarts the node agent. Servers that were stopped when you clicked Restart all Servers on Node remain stopped.
Tip: The node agent for the node must be processing to restart application servers on the node.
- Stop the processing of a node agent. On the Node agents page, select the check box beside the node agent to stop processing; click Stop.
Results
Depending on the steps that you completed, we have viewed information about a node agent, stopped and started the processing of a node agent, and stopped and restarted application servers on the node that is managed by the node agent.
What to do next
We can administer other aspects of the WAS ND environment, such as the dmgr, nodes, and cells.
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