Adding complete life-cycle middleware servers

You can configure 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 performs the following tasks on your middleware servers:
Avoid trouble Avoid trouble: On the administrative console, when you select Servers > All servers > middleware_server, and then click Stop for a middleware server that displays a status of Started, you can intermittently receive an error. The following message is an example of the error:
Error xdblade31b04/WASMaintModeDC1_xdblade31b04 has not been started.
The server cannot be stopped from this page when this situation occurs.
As a work-around, complete one of the following actions to stop the started middleware server:
  • Click Servers > Server Types > type_of_middleware_server > middleware_server. Then click Stop for a middleware server that displays a status of Started.
  • Stop and then start the servers from the command line.
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Procedure

Follow the steps to create your complete life-cycle middleware server. The steps vary depending on the server type:

What to do next

You can create dynamic clusters of application servers, WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers, and PHP servers.
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