Setting up the application serving environment

 

Setting up the application serving environment

This topic summarizes the contents of the documentation that helps you set up your application serving environment. This information is for administrators, particularly those performing installation, customization, and maintenance of topologies.

Configuring ports

This topic provides information about port number settings for Version 6 and previous versions, for use in coexistence and interoperability situations.

Communicating with Web servers

This topic describes how to install and configure WebSphere plug-ins for Web servers, enabling communication between Web servers and application servers.

Setting up the administrative architecture

This topic describes how to set up logical administrative domains, including cells and nodes.

Configuring the environment

This topic describes how to configure cell-wide settings for virtual hosts, variables and shared libraries to assist in handling requests among Web applications, Web containers, and application servers.

Working with server configuration files

This topic describes how to change the default locations of configuration files, as needed. Application server configuration files define the available application servers, their configurations, and their contents.

Administering application servers

This topic describes how to configure individual application servers to provides services for running enterprise applications and their components.

Balancing workloads with clusters

This topic describes how to configure clusters, which are sets of servers that are managed together and participate in workload management.

Setting up a high availability environment

This topic describes planning ahead for high availability support, which is important in order to avoid the risk of a failure without failover coverage. In a properly setup high availability environment, a high availability manager can reassess the environment it is managing and accept new components as they are added to the environment.