Creating the Profiles

After installing WebSphere Network Deployment, it is necessary in most cases to create at least two profiles. One will act as the deployment manager for the node and the others as the federated servers.

This is done via the Profile Creation Wizard, which is started via the pct<hardware platform> file from the bin/ProfileCreator directory of the WebSphere Application Server installation.

The first choice of note during this wizard is to either create:

  1. A deployment manager profile;
  2. An Application Server profile.

The second is the choice to enable administrative security. It is recommended that administrative security is enabled on profile creation. These settings can be changed later.