You can use Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) to manage application server instances within a WebSphere® Application Server, Network Deployment cell. The administrative support and visibility for WSDM in a cell is obtained through interaction with each WSDM application deployed on the application server.
In the multinode WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment environment, the management code runs across a distributed network of Java™ virtual machines with a central access point as the deployment manager process for the entire network or cell. Several different application server Java virtual machines might be managed within a cell. You can manage an application server Java virtual machines within a cell through the WSDM application installed on deployment manager. The WSDM application acts as an administrative client to the managed application server. Figure 1 illustrates this environment with an Autonomic Computing Manager interacting with the single application server implementation of WSDM to expose the manageability of that application server. You can build a federated deployment manager cell from individual application server instances by running the addNode utility program to add the application server instances to the centrally managed cell. After a node is added to the cell, the manager can still manage each application server within the cell through the installed WSDM application on the deployment manager.