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Generating a plugin-cfg.xml

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

  1. 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.
  2. Install the new plugin-cfg.xml file on the IBM HTTP server. For details, read about configuring custom HTTP servers.