In an environment with an IBM® HTTP
server routing requests to an on demand router (ODR), the plugin-cfg.xml configuration
file ensures that requests are forwarded to the appropriate target
servers.
About this task
Each ODR can generate a plugin-cfg.xml file,
which includes all the handled URIs.
If
you enable Intelligent Management for
a web server, do not use the option to dynamically generate the plugin-cfg.xml file
for that web server. Dynamically generating the plugin-cfg.xml file
overwrites the Intelligent Management settings
in the plugin-cfg.xml file.
Procedure
- Generate the plugin-cfg.xml file using
the ODR.
You can override the default attributes. For details,
read about configuring an ODR to dynamically update the web server
plug-in configuration.
Generate plugin-cfg.xml in
a high availability environment. This ensures that, despite the other
processes available, the configuration is always generated by one
process in the cell. For more information, read about this task.
- In a multi-cell environment, ODRs in different cells generate
cell-specific plugin-cfg.xml files. You can merge plugin-cfg.xml files
for different cells into a single plugin-cfg.xml file
by using pluginmerge.bat or pluginmerge.sh,
depending on your operating system.
- Install the new plugin-cfg.xml file
on the IBM HTTP server. For
details, read about configuring custom HTTP servers.