The federation of an application server profile requires the targeted Deployment Manager to be started.
The Deployment Manager can be started by running the following command from the profiles/<deployment manager profile name>/bin directory of the WebSphere Network Deployment installation:
startServer dmgr
To add your application server profile to the Deployment Manager node the following command is used from the profiles/<Application Server profile name>/bin directory of the WebSphere Application Server installation:
addNode <deploymgr host> <deploymgr port>
Where the <deploymgr host> and <deploymgr port> are the listen host and port for the Deployment Manager 's SOAP Connector. The SOAP Connector details can be found in the Deployment Manager Administrative Console under: