In a flexible management environment, you can submit the Create
application server job to create a server. The job can
create an application server on a stand-alone node or on a federated
node of a deployment manager.
Before you begin
Start the job manager and the target nodes. If a target
node is a stand-alone application server node, also start the administrative
agent.
Your ID at the job manager must be authorized for the
administrator role or the operator role to submit jobs. When you submit
a job, you can specify a user name and password for authentication
and authorization at the target node or nodes. When you submit a job
to multiple target nodes, the user name and password or the credentials
for the submitter must be applicable to all the job targets.
About this task
You can use the administrative console of the job manager
to create an application server on one or more managed nodes. From
the job manager console, choose the Create application
server job, specify server and job options, review the
summary, and submit the job.
Instead of using the job manager
console, you can run the createApplicationServer job script in the
AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types
topic.
Procedure
- Click from the navigation tree of the job manager administrative
console.
- Choose a job to create a server.
- Select the Create application server job
type from the list.
- Optionally specify a description of the job.
- Click Next.
- Choose the job targets on which to add the server.
- Select a group of nodes from the list, or select Node
names.
Only groups of nodes that are valid
for the job type that you selected are displayed in the list of groups
of nodes.
- If you selected Node names, then
specify a node name and click Add, or click Find and
specify the chosen nodes on the Find nodes page.
- If user authentication is required, specify your user
name and password.
- Click Next.
- Specify parameters for the create server job.
- For Server name, specify a server
name that is unique on the target nodes.
To see the
names of existing servers on the target nodes, click Find on
the Specify job parameters page. On the Find node resources page,
specify the target nodes and click Find.
For example, suppose a managed node, nodeA,
has one server, server1. Specify a name that is unique
to nodeA:server2
- If the target node is in a WebSphere® Application Server, Network Deployment cell,
specify the node name in the cell on which to create the server.
You do not have to specify the node name for a base (stand-alone)
node.
For example, suppose the managed node, nodeA,
is a federated node in a WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment cell. Specify the node
name:nodeA
- To use a template other than the default server template,
specify the name and location of the template to use.
- To use a specific port number and not use the unique
port number generated by the product, specify false for Generate
unique ports.
- If you are creating a server on a z/OS node, optionally
specify short names and bit mode.
If you do not specify
values, the product generates unique short names and uses the default
bit mode.
- Click Next.
- Schedule the job.
The times and dates that
you specify are relative to the job manager.
- Optionally specify one or more e-mail addresses where
notifications are sent when the job finishes.
If you
specify multiple e-mail addresses, separate them with commas.
- Select when the job is available for submission.
- Select the job expiration.
- Optionally specify a recurring interval for the job,
a start date and time for the interval, and an end date and time for
the interval.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary, and click Finish to
submit the job.
Results
The target nodes run the job and attempt to create the
application server.
What to do next
On the Job status page, click the ID of the create application
server job and view the job status. Click the status refresh icon
to refresh the displayed status.
If
the job is not successful, view any error messages that result from
running the job, correct the error condition, and submit the job again.
If
the job is successful, click to see the new
application server in the list of resources.
After creating
the server, you can run a job that starts the server.