Overview of WAS Network Deployment for iSeries

WAS Network Deployment (Network Deployment) provides a distributed management environment for managing multiple WAS V5.0 instances (also known as nodes or base application server instances).

The Network Deployment product provides the administration deployment manager application which runs in a specialized application server also provided by the Network Deployment installation. The Network Deployment installation does not install the WAS product or create WAS instances. Also, you do not install enterprise applications into a Network Deployment instance. The only functions supported in the Network Deployment installation are the Deployment Manager and its associated administration programs, which you use to manage and configure WAS nodes which have been added to the Network Deployment domain (also known as a cell). Choose one computer system on which to install the Network Deployment product, and then choose the WebSphere Application Server nodes you wish to add to Network Deployment cell. The Deployment Manager and the nodes it manages comprise a cell. On iSeries, multiple Network Deployment instance are fully supported, enabling you to have multiple Deployment Managers each managing a unique set of nodes.

The administrative console is a Web-based application that runs on any of the browsers supported by WAS Network Deployment. For more information on supported browsers, see Prerequisites for installing Network Deployment. The administrative console provides a graphical interface that allows you to configure and manage Network Deployment environment and its resources.

See the Introduction to WAS topic for more information about WAS for iSeries.