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WebSphere Commerce federation
Federating WCS servers allows...
- Management of multiple instances from a single WAS Administrative Console
- Cluster of WCS servers
After federating the stand alone WCS profile, the console for that profile is no longer accessible, and all administrative tasks are completed through the WAS administrative console.
Before federating, back up...
After federating WCS, all updates such as store publish go through the WAS Deployment Manager.
By default WAS nodes are configured to automatically synchronize the applications when a change is made.