You can complete life-cycle middleware servers so that
the dynamic operations environment can govern all aspects of server
operations, create and remove server instances, and deploy applications
to the servers.
About this task
By configuring complete life-cycle servers, the environment
can perform the following tasks on your middleware servers:
- Create and remove server instances based on the needs of the dynamic
operations environment
- Govern all aspects of server configuration
- Provide operational control over the server
- Deploy applications to the server
- Visualize and monitor server health and performance
- Use expression-based dynamic clustering (for PHP servers, WebSphere® Application
Server
Community Edition servers, and
application servers)
Procedure
Follow the steps to create your complete life-cycle middleware
server. The steps vary depending on the server type:
- On demand router (ODR): The on demand router is a specialized
proxy server that can route work to application server nodes. The
ODR is required for aWebSphere Virtual
Enterprise environment.
See Creating and configuring ODRs
for more information.
- PHP server: WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise can
create PHP servers. See Creating PHP servers and PHP dynamic clusters
for
more information.
- WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition server: WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise supplies assisted and complete life-cycle management for WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition servers. Complete life-cycle management is supported for
WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition Version 2 and later
servers. WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition Version
1 and Version 2 servers can be represented in the administrative console
as assisted life-cycle servers. See Creating complete life-cycle WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition servers
and dynamic clusters
for
more information.
- Generic server: Generic servers are managed in, but
not supplied byWebSphere Application
Server or WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise. These servers might
be a Java™ server, a C or C++ server or process, a
CORBA server, or a Remote Method Invocation (RMI) server. See Creating
generic servers for more information.
- Proxy server: Proxy servers, like the ODR, route requests
to application server nodes. However, the ODR is the required proxy
for dynamic operations. See Creating
proxy servers for more information.
- Web server: WebSphere Application
Server and WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise can work with a Web
server to route requests for dynamic content, such as servlets, from
Web applications. See Communicating
with Web servers for more information.
- Application server: Application servers are supported
for both WebSphere Application
Server and WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise. By creating dynamic
clusters of application servers, you enable application server virtualization.
See Creating application servers for more information.
What to do next
You can create dynamic clusters of application servers, WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition servers, and
PHP servers.