When you federate the empty nodes into the deployment manager
cell, you associate the empty nodes with the deployment manager so
that you can use the deployment manager to administer the nodes. Until
you federate the empty nodes, you cannot use them for processing work.
Before you begin
Before you federate an empty node to the deployment manager
cell, you must perform the following task:
About this task
To federate the empty node into the deployment manager cell:
Procedure
- Start the deployment manager. See Starting a server from the MVS console.
- Locate the JCL member BBOWMNAN which was customized by
the WebSphere Application Server ISPF customization
dialogs when you created the empty node. For more information,
see Configuring an empty node with WebSphere ESB.
- Submit the BBOWMNAN job and check that it completes with
a return code of 0.
- If you have chosen not to start the node agent automatically
when you used the WebSphere Application Server ISPF application to configure the empty managed node, you must
start the node agent manually now. See Starting a server from the MVS console.
- Backup of the configuration file system data sets for the
deployment manager and for any managed nodes.
Results
The empty node has now been federated into the deployment
manager cell and you can administer the node using the deployment
manager in the administrative console.
What to do next
Next, use the administrative console to create a cluster.
See
Creating a cluster for more information.