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Differences between commands in virtual and native environments

When installing samples or managing profiles, the commands used in native WebSphere Application Server environments are sometimes different from the commands used in environments that contain IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition.

Although the IBM HTTP Server is installed as the user virtuser, there are some files that belong to the user root. The list of files that belong to root, can be seen using the following command: find $IHS_INSTALL_ROOT -user root. This difference dictates that some commands must be issued as root instead of virtuser.
virtuser@leolpar04:/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin> sudo -u root ./adminctl start 
virtuser@leolpar04:/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin> sudo -u root ./adminctl stop 
virtuser@leolpar04:/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin> sudo -u root ./apachectl start 
virtuser@leolpar04:/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin> sudo -u root ./apachectl stop 
There are some differences when using the manageprofiles command. The sample applications included with WebSphere Application Server are installed by default in the IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition version 7.0.x virtual image. When using the native WebSphere Application Server GUI installer, the sample applications are not installed by default. If administrative security is enabled and you create additional profiles using the manageprofiles.sh script, include the following options to avoid validation errors. This applies to both 6.1.0.x and 7.0.x virtual images. This problem does not occur by default for 6.1.0.x virtual images as samples are not installed by default. But, the behavior for the 6.1.0.x virtual images is the same if the samples are installed.

The log locations are different for the profile creation and the augmentation operations. For the virtual images, the logs are located at profile_root/logs/manageprofiles directory. This applies to all the profiles and applies to both the Version 6.1.0.x and the Version 7.0.x releases for WebSphere Hypervisor Edition.

In a native WebSphere Application Server environment, profiles are stored in the opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/Profiles directory. IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition uses a different location. On the virtual images, profiles are stored in the opt/IBM/WebSphere/Profiles directory. Similarly, the profileRegistry.xml file is stored in the <profile_root>/properties directory for the virtual images, but is stored in the <app_server_root>/properties directory for native environments.




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