Liberty profile server properties

Use the options from the server properties file to configure WebSphere® eXtreme Scale servers that run in the Liberty.

The server properties file contains several properties that define different settings for your server, such as security configuration. The server properties file is used by both catalog service and container servers in both stand-alone servers and servers that are hosted in WebSphere Application Server.

Configure the server.xml file using the same configuration that you might use for a stand-alone server configuration. In the server.xml file, specify the file path to the properties file in a serverProps attribute inside the com.ibm.ws.xs.server.config element. See the following example from the server.xml file:
<server>
...
<com.ibm.ws.xs.server.config ... serverProps="/path/to/myServerProps.properties" ... />
</server>
Some properties that were formerly configurable in a stand-alone environment must be configured using the Liberty configuration instead of the eXtreme Scale configuration mechanisms.
  • Logging and tracing settings must be specified using the logging element in the server.xml file, rather than being specified in the eXtreme Scale server properties file or com.ibm.ws.xs.server.config element.
  • The working directory, like logging and tracing, is a server-wide setting, and therefore, they must be specified in a server-wide way.
If the previous settings are specified incorrectly, eXtreme Scale logs a warning message, which indicates that the settings are ignored.