AIX cluster: Configure WebSphere Portal to use a database
Overview
For high availability, using a remote database is preferred. For improved performance databases can be distributed across multiple database servers. Databases should also be configured for failover.
Passwords
For security reasons, you should not store passwords in the wkplc.properties and wkplc_dbdomain.properties. Edit each of the properties files prior to running a configuration task, inserting the passwords needed for that task. After the task has run, delete all passwords from each file. For more information, see Deleting passwords from configuration scripts.
You can specify the password on the command line using the following syntax:
./ConfigEngine.sh task_name -Dpassword_property_key=foo_value
As with other properties, each password property must have the -D prefix and be set equal to (=) a value. If you have multiple properties in a single command, use a space character between each -Dproperty=value setting.
Prerequisites
Install WebSphere Portal on AIX on the primary nodeInstall database drivers under WP_PROFILE directory so the drivers will automatically be copied to the additional cluster node profiles.
AIX cluster - Set up DB
- Set up a DB2 database
- Set up a remote IBM DB2 for i
- Set up a remote DB2 for z/OS
- Set up an Oracle or Oracle RAC database
- Set up a remote SQL Server
- Verify databases
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Prepare the primary node on AIX
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