Creating application servers
During the installation process, the product creates a default application server, named server1. Most installations require several application servers to handle the application serving needs of their production environment. You can use the command-line tool or the administrative console to create additional application servers.
Before you begin
Determine if you want to use the application server that you are creating as part of a cluster. If this application server is going to be part of a cluster, you must use the Create a new cluster wizard instead of the Create a new application server wizard to create this application server. The topic Adding members to a cluster describes how to use the Create a new cluster wizard.
About this task
To create a new application server that is not part of a cluster, you can either use the createApplicationServer, createWebServer, or createGenericServer wsadmin command, or you can use the administrative console.
To create a new application server that is not part of a cluster, you can either use the Profile Management tool, the createApplicationServer, createWebServer, or createGenericServer wsadmin command, or you can use the administrative console.
If you are migrating from a previous version of the product, you can upgrade a portion of the nodes in a cell, while leaving others at the previous product level. This means that, for a period of time, you might be managing servers that are running at two different release levels in the same cell. However, when you create a new server definition, you must use a server configuration template, and that template must be created from a server instance that matches the version of the node for which you are creating the server.
There are no restrictions on what you can do with the servers running on the more current release level.
- Must be different than the cell name of any servers running in the sysplex
- Must be different than the cell name of any servers running in another monoplex that is attached to the sysplex
Complete the following steps if you want to use the administrative console to create a new application server that is not part of a cluster.
Procedure
Results
The new application server is in the list of servers on the administrative console Application servers page.
What to do next
This newly created application server is configured with default settings that are not displayed when you run the Create New Application Server wizard.
You can:
- In the administrative console, click
For example, if you do not need to have all of the sever components start during the server startup process, you might want to select Start components as needed, which is not automatically selected when a new server is created. When this property is selected, server components are dynamically started as they are needed. When this property is not selected, all of the server components are started during the startup process. Therefore, selecting this property usually results in improved startup time because fewer components are started during the startup process.
Avoid trouble: If you are running other WebSphere products on top of this product, make sure that those other products support this functionality before you select this property.
, and then click the name of this application server to view all of the configuration
settings for this application server. You can then use this page to change some of the configuration
settings for this server. - Use server custom properties to modify the timer settings if you need to change the default timer settings for certain operations.
- Set the client.encoding.override Java™ virtual machine (JVM) argument to
UTF-8
if you need to use multiple language encoding support in the administrative console.