Synchronizing nodes with the wsadmin tool

This article only applies to network deployment installations. A node synchronization is necessary in order to propagate configuration changes to the affected node or nodes. By default this occurs periodically, as long as the node can communicate with the deployment manager. It is possible to cause this to happen explicitly by performing the following steps:

Set the variable for node synchronize.

Using Jacl:

set Sync1 [$AdminControl completeObjectName type=NodeSync,node=myNodeName,*]

Using Jython:

Sync1 = AdminControl.completeObjectName('type=NodeSync,node=myNodeName,*')

where:

set is a Jacl command
Sync1 is a variable name
$ is a Jacl operator for substituting a variable name with its value
AdminControl is an object that enables the manipulation of MBeans running in a WebSphere server process
completeObjectName is an AdminControl command
type=NodeSync,node=myNodeName is a fragment of the object name whose complete name is returned by this command. It is used to find the matching object name which is, in this case, the SyncNode object for the node myNodeName, where myNodeName is the name of the node that you use to synchronize configuration changes. For example: type=Server, name=serv1. It can be any valid combination of domain and key properties. For example, type, name, cell, node, process, etc.

Example output:

WebSphere:platform=common,cell=myNetwork,version=5.0,name=node Sync,mbeanIdentifier=nodeSync,type=NodeSync,node=myBaseNode,
process=nodeagent

Synchronize by issuing the following command:

Using Jacl:
```
$AdminControl invoke $Sync1 sync
```
Using Jython:
```
AdminControl.invoke(Sync1, 'sync')
```

where:

$ is a Jacl operator for substituting a variable name with its value
AdminControl is an object that enables the manipulation of MBeans running in a WebSphere server process
invoke is an AdminControl command
Sync1 evaluates to the ID of the server specified in step number 7
sync is an attribute of modify objects

Example output:

true

You will receive an output value of true if the synchronization completes.

When the synchronization is complete, the files that are created in the Deployment Manager's config directory and are associated with myNodeName now exist in the config directory of myNode's node.

set	is a Jacl command
Sync1	is a variable name
$	is a Jacl operator for substituting a variable name with its value
AdminControl	is an object that enables the manipulation of MBeans running in a WebSphere server process
completeObjectName	is an AdminControl command
type=NodeSync,node=myNodeName	is a fragment of the object name whose complete name is returned by this command. It is used to find the matching object name which is, in this case, the SyncNode object for the node myNodeName, where myNodeName is the name of the node that you use to synchronize configuration changes. For example: type=Server, name=serv1. It can be any valid combination of domain and key properties. For example, type, name, cell, node, process, etc.