Deployment manager profiles

A deployment manager is a server that manages operations for a logical group, or cell, of other servers. In network deployment environments, a group of servers are used collaboratively to provide workload balancing and failover. The deployment manager is the central location for administering the servers and clusters in the cell.

To create a deployment environment, the deployment manager profile is the first profile that you create or augment. . The deployment manager has a First steps console, from which you can start and stop the deployment manager and start its administrative console. You use the administrative console of the deployment manager to manage the servers and clusters in the cell. This includes configuring servers and clusters, adding servers to clusters, starting and stopping servers and clusters, and deploying modules to them.

Although the deployment manager is a type of server, you cannot deploy modules to the deployment manager itself.

After creating or augmenting the deployment manager for IBM® Business Monitor in a network deployment environment, you can then create or augment custom nodes and federate them into, or make them a part of, the deployment manager to create a cell, a group of nodes or clusters that are centrally administered.

Create or augment the deployment manager profile before creating or augmenting the custom profiles. If you created a deployment manager profile before installing IBM Business Monitor and you plan to use the same deployment manager profile to manage IBM Business Monitor nodes, augment the profile using the template provided by IBM Business Monitor.