Viewing, configuring, creating, and deleting node groups

This task discusses how to create and manage node groups.

Read about nodes groups if you are unfamiliar with them.

Your WebSphere Application Server environment has a default node group. However, if we need additional node groups to manage the Application Server environment, we can create and configure additional node groups. We can delete a node group as long as it is not a default node group.

• View and configure node groups.

  1. Click System administration > Node groups in the console navigation tree.

  2. To view additional information about a particular node group or to further configure a node group, click on the node group name under Name.

• Create a node group.

  1. Click System administration > Node groups in the console navigation tree.

  2. Click New.

  3. Specify the node group name and description.
  The node group is added to the product environment . The name of the node group appears in the name column of the Node groups page.

  We can now add nodes to the node group. See topics about adding nodes.

• Delete a node group if the node group is not the default node group.

  1. If the node group contains members, delete the members:

     1. Click System administration > Node groups in the console navigation tree.

     2. Under Name, click the node group whose members to delete.

     3. Click Node group members.

     4. Select all the node group members.

     5. Click Remove.

  2. Click System administration > Node groups.

  3. Select an empty node group.

  4. Click delete.

Subtopics

• Node group collection
  Use this page to manage node groups. A node group is a collection of WAS nodes. A node group defines a boundary for server cluster formation.

Related concepts

Node groups

Related tasks

Adding, managing, and removing nodes

Viewing, adding, and deleting node group members