Configuring external WebSphere application servers
You can create middleware server representations of WebSphere® application servers that are in other cells.
Before you begin
About this task
External WebSphere application servers are application servers that reside outside of your Intelligent Management cell. For example, you have two cells: one cell that is running WebSphere Application Server application servers, and another cell that is running Intelligent Management. In this scenario, you can install the node agent on the WebSphere nodes in the other cell, federate these nodes into your Intelligent Management cell, and create representations of your external WebSphere application servers. Using external WebSphere application servers can be useful in a migration scenario, because you can continue to route traffic to servers that are running an older version with the on demand router, while you work on migrating your servers and applications to the latest version. However, external WebSphere application servers are assisted lifecycle servers, and therefore do not receive the full lifecycle management that is provided when you create application servers directly in your Intelligent Management cell.
When you configure the external WebSphere application servers, if you installed WebSphere Application Server in a location other than the default directory, update the WebSphere variables with your installation directory. To perform server operations on your server, configure the server operations for the WebSphere Application Server middleware server representation.
Procedure
What to do next
- To easily configure your remaining external WebSphere application servers, create a server template of your current external WebSphere Application Server.
- View the log files for your external WebSphere Application Server on the computer that hosts it.
- Edit configuration files for your external WebSphere Application Server on the computer that hosts it.
- After you create representations of all the external WebSphere application servers, you can add the representations to a dynamic cluster.