Configure foreign cell name bindings to enable your applications
to access other applications in other cells. A foreign cell is a cell
other than the one in which an application resides. A foreign cell name binding
is a context binding that resolves to the Cell Root context of a foreign cell.
All applications in the local cell can look up objects in the foreign cell
through the foreign cell binding.
About this task
If applications in the local cell access applications in one or more
foreign cells, configure a foreign cell binding for each foreign cell.
Administrators
typically configure a foreign cell binding before they configure any applications
with JNDI names that resolve through the binding. However, you can create
a foreign cell binding any time before you start an application that uses
the binding.
The foreign cell and the local cell must have different
names.
To view or configure a foreign cell binding, use the administrative
console.
Procedure
- Go to the Foreign Cell Bindings
page.
In the administrative console, click Environment
> Naming > Foreign Cell Bindings.
- Create a new foreign cell binding.
- Open the New Foreign Cell Binding wizard.
On the Foreign Cell Bindings page, click New.
- On the Specify foreign
cell name panel, specify the name of the cell that applications
in the local cell will access.
- On the Specify
bootstrap addresses panel, specify a host name and port for a new
bootstrap address, and then click Apply.
Repeat this
step for each bootstrap address that you need.
The name
of each new bootstrap address is displayed in the collection table on the Bootstrap Addresses page.
- On the Summary panel, verify the settings and click Finish.
The name of the new binding is displayed in the collection table
on the Foreign Cell Bindings page.
- Optional: Edit a previously created foreign cell binding.
- From the collection table on the Foreign
Cell Bindings page, click the name of the binding that you want to
edit.
- On the foreign cell
binding settings page, edit the foreign cell name as desired.
- Edit the list of bootstrap addresses used for the foreign cell
binding.
- From the collection table on the Foreign
Cell Bindings page, click foreign_cell_binding_name > Bootstrap
Addresses.
- On the foreign cell binding settings page, click Bootstrap Addresses.
The Bootstrap Addresses page opens.
To
add a new bootstrap address, click New and specify the host and port.
To
delete a bootstrap address, click the check box next to the cell name and
click Delete.
To edit an existing bootstrap address, click the
address you want to edit. On the bootstrap
address settings page, edit the host and port as desired and click OK to
register the change.
Results
Configurations for foreign cell bindings are created or changed as
specified.