Configure cells

 

Configure cells

When you created a deployment manager profile, a cell was created. A cell provides a way to group one or more nodes of your Network Deployment product. You probably will not need to re-configure the cell. To view information about and manage a cell, use the settings page for a cell.

  1. Access the settings page for a cell. Click System Administration > Cell from the navigation tree of the administrative console.

  2. If the protocol that the cell uses to retrieve information from a network is not appropriate for your system, select the appropriate protocol. By default, a cell uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). If you want the cell to use User Diagram Protocol, select UDP from the drop-down list for Cell Discovery Protocol on the settings page for the cell. It is unlikely that you will need to change the cell's protocol configuration from TCP.

  3. Click Custom Properties and define any name-value pairs needed by your deployment manager.

  4. When you installed the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment product, a node was created for the deployment manager. You can add additional nodes on the Node page. Click Nodes to access the Node page, which you use to manage nodes.

    Note: Note: WebSphere Application Server on other platforms has support for Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6); however, the OS/400 platform only supports IPv4. Note that when you add a node to a cell, the format in which you specify the host name is based on the version of IP the node will be using. For details, see IP version considerations for cells.




Sub-topics

IP version considerations for cells

Cell settings

Related concepts
Cells
Deployment managers
Node

Related reference
Ports collection