Creating application servers

Why and when to perform this task

You can create a new application server using the wsadmin tool or the Create New Application Server page of the administrative console. On the Network Deployment product, you can also create a new application server when you add a cluster member to a server cluster.

Note: For the Base WebSphere Application Server product, although you can use the administrative console to create a new server definition, you cannot use it to start, stop or, in any way, control or manage that server. The Base product administrative console can only be used to create server definitions and, if necessary, adjust the server definitions that it creates. To manage Base application servers, use the wasadmin tool or the command line tools such as startServer and stopServer.

For the Base WebSphere Application Server product, you must manage each application server from the console that is hosted by that application server process.

The steps below describe how to use the Create New Application Server page.

Steps for this task

  1. Go to the Application Servers page and click New. This brings you to the Create New Application Server page.
  2. Follow the instructions on the Create New Application Server page and define your application server.
    1. Select a node for the application server.
    2. Type in a name for the application server. The name must be unique within the node.
    3. Select whether the new server will have unique ports for each HTTP transport. By default, this option is enabled. If you select this option, you might need to update the alias list for the virtual host that you plan to use with this server to contain these new port values. If you deselect this option, ensure that the default port values do not conflict with other servers on the same physical machine.
    4. Select a template to be used in creating the new server. You can use a default application server template for your new server or use an existing application server as a template. The new application server will inherit all properties of the template server.
    5. If you create the new server using an existing application server as a model, select whether to map applications from the existing server to the new server. By default, this option is disabled.
  3. To use multiple language encoding support in the administrative console, configure an application server with UTF-8 encoding enabled.

Results

The new application server appears in the list of servers on the Application Servers page.

What to do next

Note that the application server created has many default values specified for it. An application server has many properties that can be set and creating an application server on the Create New Application Server page specifies values for only a few of the important properties. To view all of the properties of your application server and to customize your application server further, click on the name of your application server on the Application Servers page and change the settings for your application server as needed.

Related concepts
Application servers
Related tasks
Deploying and managing using scripting



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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