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Overview
Overview of migration, coexistence, and interoperability
Migrating and coexisting application servers
Premigration considerations
Migrating API and specifications
How do I migrate, coexist, and interoperate?
Migrating product configurations
Configuration mapping during product-configuration migration
Preparing for product-configuration migration
Checking for the product-configuration migration prerequisites
Migrating product configurations with migration tools
convertScriptCompatibility command
WASPreUpgrade command
WASPostUpgrade command
Migrating profiles
Migrating to a Version 8.5 stand-alone application server profile
Migrating to a Version 8.5 WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment cell
Migrating a large WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment configuration with a large number of applications
Migrating Apache Derby databases
Migrating from the WebSphere Connect JDBC driver
Rolling back environments
Rolling back a WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment cell
Rolling back a federated node
Rolling back stand-alone application servers
Migrating cells using the command-line tools
Step 1. Back up the deployment manager and all old nodes
backupConfig command
restoreConfig command
WebSphere Application Server default directories
Step 2. Install WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5
Step 3. Create the target deployment manager profile
Step 4. Save the current deployment manager configuration to the migration backup directory
WASPreUpgrade command
Step 5. Restore the previous deployment manager configuration
WASPostUpgrade command
Step 6. Back up the Version 8.5 deployment manager configuration
Step 7. Start the Version 8.5 deployment manager
Step 8. Migrate plug-ins for web servers
Step 9. Migrate application client installations
Step 10. Migrate nodes
Migrating an administrative agent profile and its registered set of managed base application servers
Step 1. Install WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5
Step 2. Create the target administrative agent profile
Step 3. Ensure that all in-progress jobs are completed on the managed profiles
Step 4. Stop polling the job manager
Step 5. Save the current administrative agent configuration to the migration backup directory.
WASPreUpgrade command
Step 6. Restore the previous administrative agent configuration
WASPostUpgrade command
Step 7. Start the Version 8.5 administrative agent
Step 8. Migrate managed base application servers
Migrating a job manager profile and its registered set of servers
Step 1. Install WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5
Step 2. Create the target job manager profile
Step 3. Stop the old job manager
Step 4. Save the current job manager configuration to the migration backup directory.
WASPreUpgrade command
Step 5. Restore the previous job manager configuration
WASPostUpgrade command
Step 6. Start the Version 8.5 job manager
Step 7. Migrate the registered servers
Migrating web server configurations
Default value and behavior changes from previous releases
Migrating administrative scripts
Migrating administrative scripts from Version 6.1 or above to 8.5
Updating SSL configurations to Version 8.5 configuration definitions after migration
Running multiple application server versions
Coexistence support
Interoperating multiple application server versions
Configuring port settings
Port number settings
Troubleshooting migration