Clustering servers with wsadmin scripting

We can use scripting and wsadmin.sh to cluster application servers, generic servers, web servers, and proxy servers.

This topic contains the following tasks:

• Create clusters

• Modify cluster member templates

• Create cluster members

• Create clusters without cluster members

• Start clusters

• Querying cluster state

• Stopping clusters

Subtopics

• Create clusters
  Use wsadmin.sh to create application server, generic server, and proxy server clusters. A cluster is a set of servers that you manage together as a way to balance workload.

• Modify cluster member templates
  Use the AdminConfig object and wsadmin.sh to modify cluster member templates for application server, generic server, and proxy server clusters.

• Create cluster members
  Use wsadmin.sh to create cluster members in application server, generic server, web server, and proxy server clusters.

• Create clusters without cluster members
  We can use wsadmin.sh to create application server, generic server, web server, and proxy server clusters without cluster members.

• Start clusters
  Use wsadmin.sh to start application server, generic server, and proxy server clusters in the application server runtime.

• Querying cluster state
  We can query cluster states and scripting.

• Stopping clusters
  Use scripting and wsadmin.sh to stop application server, generic server, and proxy server clusters.

• ClusterConfigCommands (AdminTask)
  We can use the Jython or Jacl scripting languages to cluster application servers, generic servers, and proxy servers . The commands and parameters in the ClusterConfigCommands group can be used to create and delete server clusters and servers known as cluster members.

Related tasks

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