[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]

Managing profiles on non-z/OS operating systems

You can create, delete, augment, and unaugment profiles, which are sets of files that define the runtime environment. At least one profile must exist to run the product.

Before you begin

[AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows] This task assumes a basic familiarity with the manageprofiles command, the Profile Management Tool, system commands, and profile concepts.

About this task

Typically, you create a profile when you install the product. Depending on which WebSphere® Application Server product you have, you might create additional profiles.

[AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows] You can create profiles using the Profile Management Tool or the manageprofiles command.

For the WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment product, you can create any combination of profiles.

[Linux] [HP-UX] [Solaris] [AIX] Non-root users can create their own profiles so that they can manage their own application servers. Typically, non-root users manage application servers for development purposes.

You can delete profiles through the manageprofiles command or by other means if necessary. You might delete a profile if the configuration that you specified in the profile is not what you want.

Perform any of the following tasks to manage profiles.

Procedure

Results

You might have created, augmented, unaugmented, or deleted a profile depending on the tasks that you completed.

What to do next

Depending on the action that you completed, you can start a server or proceed to other tasks such as deploying an application.
Restriction: When you federate or unfederate an application server that is enabled for CEA, the Enable communications service attribute is reset. After federating or unfederating an application server that is enabled for CEA, you must re-enable this attribute before running CEA applications on the application server.
  1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name > Communications Enabled Applications (CEA).
  2. Check the Enable communications service checkbox.
  3. Click OK to save the changes to the local configuration.
  4. Click Save to save the changes to the master configuration.
  5. Stop and restart the application server.



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Managing profiles using commands
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