Administrative agent profiles manage multiple base application servers in environments such as development, unit test, or that portion of a server farm that resides on a single machine. Before you can migrate managed base application servers from Version 7.0 or above to Version 8.5, you must first migrate the administrative agent.
This article is about configuration migration, such as migrating deployment managers and federated nodes in a network deployment environment. The Application Migration Toolkit for WebSphere Application Server provides support for migrating applications from previous versions of WebSphere Application Server to the latest product version. For information about migrating applications, read more about the Application Migration Toolkit.
sptcfgReview the migration planning information. See Knowledge Collection: Migration planning for WebSphere® Application Server.
You can migrate administrative agent profiles and the registered set of managed base application servers from Version 7.0 or above to Version 8.5.
This task describes how to use the z/OS Configuration Migration Management Tool to migrate an administrative agent and its associated set of managed base application servers from WebSphere Application Server Version 7.0 or above to Version 8.5. A base application server becomes managed when it is registered with a single administrative agent. An administrative agent may manage one or more base application servers and must be at the same release level and on the same machine as the base application servers it is managing. z/OS restricts that only the version 7.0 or above, or Version 8.5 administrative agent be running at any one time. The following instructions will tell you when to start and stop the old and new administrative agents. This restriction requires that all managed base application servers be migrated at the same time.
You migrated an administrative agent profile and its associated managed base application servers from WebSphere Application Server Version 7.0 or above to Version 8.5 using the migration tools.