You can create profiles, which define runtime environments, by using the Profile Management Tool. Using profiles instead of multiple product
installations saves disk space and simplifies updating the product because a single set of core
product files is maintained.
Before you begin
Before you use the Profile Management Tool, install the product files.
Supported configurations: The Profile Management Tool is the graphical user interface for the
manageprofiles command and is supported only on AIX®, Linux®, and Windows. On HP-UX, IBM® i, and Solaris, use the
manageprofiles command instead.
To run the GUI, AIX systems must
have GTK+ 2.24 or later installed from the
AIX Toolbox for Linux. Linux systems
arequire GTK+ 2.18 or later, and GTK+ 3.0 is supported only for Linux on Intel and POWER® Little Endian (LE) processors. If GTK+ 3.0 is installed on a platform where it is not
supported, you might encounter errors. To resolve these errors, add the following two lines to the
eclipse.ini file to start GTK+ 2.
--launcher.GTK_version
2
To launch the Profile Management Tool GUI, run the
pmt.bat
or
pmt.sh
script from the
app_server_root/bin/ProfileManagement
directory:
app_server_root/bin/ProfileManagement/pmt.sh
You must
provide enough system temporary space to create a profile. For information, read about the file
system requirements for profiles.
Important: Concurrent profile creation is not supported for one set of core product
files. Concurrent attempts to create profiles result in a warning about a profile creation already
in progress.
About this task
You can have the installation procedure create a default profile. After you
install the core product files for the WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment
product, use the Profile Management Tool or the manageprofiles command to create additional profiles.
Procedure
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Create a cell profile.
With a cell profile, you can create a deployment manager profile and a profile for a federated
application server node in a single pass through the Profile Management tool. Use the cell profile
creation option to create the deployment manager profile and the federated application server node
profile, unless you have a specific reason to create them separately.
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Create a management profile with a deployment manager server.
With a deployment manager you can create the administrative node for a multinode,
multi-machine group of application server nodes that you create later. This logical group of
application server processes is known as a cell.
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Create a management profile with an administrative agent server.
You can create a management profile for the administrative agent to administer multiple
application servers that run customer applications only. The administrative agent provides a single
administrative console to administer the application servers.
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Create a management profile with a job manager server.
You can create a management profile for the job manager to coordinate administrative actions
among multiple deployment managers, administer multiple unfederated application servers,
asynchronously submit jobs to start servers, and a variety of other tasks.
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Create an application server profile.
Create an application server profile so that you can make applications available to the Internet
or to an intranet, typically using Java™ technology.
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Create a custom profile.
A custom profile is an empty node that you can customize through the deployment manager to
include application servers, clusters, or other Java
processes, such as a messaging server. Create a custom profile on a distributed machine and add the
node into the deployment manager cell to get started customizing the node.
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Create a secure proxy profile.
You can create a secure proxy profile to serve as the initial point of entry into your enterprise
environment. Typically, a secure proxy server exists in the DMZ, accepts requests from clients on
the Internet, and forwards the requests to servers in your enterprise environment.
What to do next
See the description of the manageprofiles
command to learn more about the command-line alternative method of creating a profile and to see
examples of using the command.
Read about planning for installation for examples of configurations that you can create by
creating profiles.