Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Set up the application serving environment > Administer application servers


Manage application servers

We can use either the admin console or command-line tools to manage the application servers.

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.

For transitioning users: If you are migrating from a previous version of the product, you can upgrade a portion of the nodes in a cell, while leaving others at the previous release level. This means that, for a period of time, you might be managing servers that are running at different release levels in the same cell. In this mixed environment, some restrictions exist for what you can do with servers that are running at a previous release level. No restrictions exist for what you can do with the servers that are running on the newest release level.trns

We can perform the following steps to view and manage an application server from the admin console.


Procedure

  1. In the admin console click...

        > Server Types > WebSphere application servers.

    The Application servers page lists the application servers in the environment and the status of each of these servers. We can use this page to complete the following actions:

    • Create additional servers.
    • Monitor running servers.
    • Control the status of a server.

    • Create a server template
    • Delete a server. When you select a server for deletion, click Delete and OK before the server is deleted.

      Tip: If the server you are deleting has applications or modules mapped to it and is not part of a cluster, remap the modules to another server, or create a new server and remap the modules to the new server, before you delete this server. After a server to which modules are mapped is deleted, you cannot remap these modules to another server. Therefore, if you do not remap the modules to another server before you delete this server, uninstall all of the modules that were mapped to this server, and then reinstall them on a different server.

      If the server you are deleting is part of a cluster, any application that is installed on this server is automatically installed on all of the other servers in the cluster. Therefore, deleting one cluster member does not affect the other cluster members, and the application remains installed in the cluster. Similarly when a new member is added to an existing cluster, any applications that are installed on the servers in that cluster are automatically installed on the new cluster member.

  2. Click the name of a listed server to view or change the configuration settings for that server.

    We can use this admin console page to:

    • Change the configuration settings for the selected server.

      For example, if you do not need to have all of the sever components start during the server startup process, you might want to select Start components as needed, which is not automatically selected when a new server is created. When this property is selected, server components are dynamically started as they are needed. When this property is not selected, all of the server components are started during the startup process. Therefore, selecting this property usually results in improved startup time because fewer components are started during the startup process.

    • View the status of applications running on the selected server. To view the status of applications running on this server, under Applications, click Installed Applications.

  3. Click Review, select Synchronize changes with Nodes.

  4. Click Save to save any configuration changes that you made.

  5. If you made any configuration or custom property changes, start the application server, or stop and restart the application server if it is already running.


Results

When you click...

    > Server Types > WebSphere application servers, you can view the state of each server.

When you click...

    > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name

, you can view any configuration changes you made.


What to do next

We can deploy applications or components to the application servers.


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