WAS v8.5 > Set up the application serving environment > Manage profiles

Manage profiles using the graphical user interface

We can create profiles, which define runtime environments, using the Profile Management Tool. Using profiles instead of multiple product installations saves disk space and simplifies updating the product because a single set of core product files is maintained.

Before using the Profile Management Tool, install the product files.

The Profile Management Tool is the graphical user interface for the manageprofiles command. See the description of the manageprofiles command for more information.

Concurrent profile creation is not supported for one set of core product files. Concurrent attempts to create profiles result in a warning about a profile creation already in progress.

Provide enough system temporary space to create a profile. For information, read about the file system requirements for profiles.

Supported configurations: The Profile Management Tool graphical user interface (GUI) for 64-bit architectures is available on Linux for zSeries platforms, x86-based Linux and Windows platforms, Linux on Power PC platforms, and AIX Power PC platforms. However, we can use the Profile Management Tool GUI on other 64–bit architectures if we use a WAS 32–bit installation.

The installation procedure creates one profile named default for an application server named server1. We can use the Profile Management Tool or the manageprofiles command to create more application server processes. For example, a second profile can allow two different teams in a department to test independently of one another using the same machine. We can also create an administrative agent profile so that we can administer multiple application servers from a single administrative interface.


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You have created one or more profiles using the Profile Management Tool.

See the description of the manageprofiles command to learn more about the command-line alternative method of creating a profile and to see examples of using the command.

Read about planning for installation for examples of configurations that we can create by creating profiles.


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Create management profiles with administrative agents
Create application server profiles


Reference:

Profiles: File-system requirements


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