Create or augment profiles on Linux
We can create new profiles or augment existing IBM WebSphere Application Server default profiles or dmgr profiles with IBM WebSphere Portal. Use pmt.sh, if supported, to enter all required parameters on a GUI. PMT automatically populates default values. We can also use manageProfiles.sh to enter all required parameters on a command line. This method allows us to automate the process. If you have an existing WAS default profile, use manageProfiles.sh. The PMT interface is not supported for augmentation in this scenario.Creating or augmenting a profile requires a profile template, which is used to execute the required actions. The templates can be found in...
PORTAL_HOME/profileTemplates
Choose the appropriate file to create or augment the profile:
- Create a Portal application server profile on Linux
The IBM WebSphere Portal installation registers the WebSphere Portal application server profile template with IBM WAS. We can then create new profiles based on the template. We can use the manageprofiles.sh. We can also use pmt.sh, which is a GUI. The newly created profile's WAS administrator ID and password are set according to the input given. The portal still has the same security and database configurations, including the portal admin ID and password, as the initial profile used to run enable-profiles. If the initial profile was using the Derby database, a fresh copy is automatically created with the new profile. If your initial profile was configured to use a non-Derby database, then all the database domains of the new profile are identically configured. Likewise, any security configurations (like a stand-alone or federated LDAP that were made before running enable-profiles are preserved with the new profile.- Create a Portal custom profile on Linux
Custom profiles do not contain any servers or applications; they are used as run time environments to create additional cluster members. After creating the profile, the node must be federated into an existing cell. The portal server is added when we add the additional nodes to an existing cluster.- Augment a stand-alone default profile with WebSphere Portal on Linux
We can augment an existing IBM WAS default profile running in a stand-alone (non-federated) environment with IBM WebSphere Portal. The augmentation adds the WebSphere Portal configurations, applications, and application server that were saved from the baseline WebSphere Portal configuration.- Augment a dmgr profile on Linux
An existing dmgr profile can be augmented with the configuration settings required to set up an IBM WebSphere Portal cluster.