Migrating a job manager profile and its registered set of servers

You can migrate a job manager profile and its registered set of servers from Version 7.0 or above to Version 8.5.

Before you begin

Supported configurations Supported configurations:

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.

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Review the migration planning information at Knowledge Collection: Migration planning for WebSphere® Application Server.

About this task

Job manager profiles can have one or more of the following server types registered:
  • Deployment manager servers
  • Managed base application servers (which are also registered to an administrative agent)
Avoid trouble Avoid trouble:
  1. Managed base application servers and deployment manager servers cannot accept jobs from a job manager that is of a previous version. To avoid problems, migrate your job manager profiles to Version 8.5 before you migrate managed base application servers and deployment manager servers to Version 8.5.
  2. When migrating the managed base application server or managed deployment manager in a flexible management environment, the node names must be the same in Version 8.5 and previous releases.
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This task outlines the steps needed to migrate the job manager and the set of registered servers.

You can migrate job manager profiles and the registered set of servers from Version 7.0 or above to Version 8.5.

Avoid trouble Avoid trouble: Ensure that your setting for the maximum number of open files is 10000 or greater. If the number of open files is too low, this can cause a variety of migration failures.gotcha

Procedure

  1. Install WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5
  2. Create the target job manager profile
  3. Stop the old job manager
  4. Save the current job manager configuration to the migration backup directory.
  5. Restore the previous job manager configuration
  6. Start the Version 8.5 job manager
  7. Migrate the registered servers

Results

You migrated a job manager 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.

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