11.1 Add additional Web servers

As we only use active Web server nodes managed by Load Balancer, rather than having active/standby pairs of machines (see 7.1, Introduction to Web server High Availability), the configuration is identical on all Web server machines. All necessary files can be copied from Web server node 1, which was configured as part of WebSphere Commerce instance creation.

IBM recommends adding additional Web servers only after federation (see Clustering WebSphere Commerce V6.0 with WebSphere Application Server V6.0), as the Web server configurations are removed from the WebSphere Application Server cell during federation.

We describe how to add one Web server node to the cell configuration of a federated WebSphere Commerce instance. We refer to it as Web server node 2. In our scenario, its host name is srvb504.torolab.ibm.com and the IP address is 9.26.127.157.

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