Creating a profile on a local WebSphere Application Server traditional V8.5, V8.0, or V7.0

How to create runtime environments for a local WebSphere® Application Server traditional V8.5, V8.0, or V7.0. Each runtime environment is created within a profile. A profile is the set of files that define the runtime environment.

Before you begin

The Profile Management tool is a graphical user interface to the WebSphere Application Server command line tool, manageprofiles for creating profiles. You can use the development workbench in this product to start the Profile Management tool that is provided by the WebSphere Application Server product.

You can use the Profile Management tool to create multiple profiles on the same server. The need for defining multiple profiles to create multiple runtime environments on the same server is common. An example use case is allowing different teams to test independently of each other on the same server by using their own profiles. Another example use case is allowing a developer to create separate profiles of the application server for development and testing.

Prerequisites:
  • See the Profiles: required disk space topic from the WebSphere Application Server information center to verify that you have the required disk space.
  • Set the user of your operating system to have administrator authority, which is the default setting to run the Profile Management tool for WebSphere Application Server. For example, the root user on Linux. For details to create a profile with a non-root user, see the Managing profiles for non-root users topic available in the WebSphere Application Server information Center:
  • Note: Concurrent profile creation is not supported for one set of core WebSphere Application Server product files. Concurrent attempts to create profiles result in a warning about a profile creation already in progress.

About this task

Important: Applicable to WebSphere Application Server traditional
To create a profile on a local WebSphere Application Server:

Procedure

  1. From the menu bar of the workbench, select Window > Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, expand Server > WebSphere Application Server.
  3. In the WebSphere Application Server local profile management list, select a server runtime environment for which you want to create a profile.
    Tip: To add a server runtime environment to this list, see the Defining the server runtime environments preferences topic.
  4. Click Run Profile Management Tool.
  5. Configure your profile by following the instructions in the Profile Management tool. For more information about configuring a profile by using the Profile Management tool, see Using the Profile to create an application server.
    Tip: This graphic is a Windows icon. On Windows:If you select the Advanced profile creation option, in the Windows Service Definition page of the Profile Management tool, deselect the Run the Application Server process as a Windows service check box. Window services are global settings on an operating system. Deselecting this check box avoids conflict of service requests between different profiles. For example, if you configure an application server as a Windows service and issue the startServer command, the wasservice command attempts to start the defined service. As a result, you can lose track of which profile issued the startServer command, as any profile can start this globally defined Window service.
  6. This graphic is a Linux icon. On Linux: In order for the workbench to communicate to the server, you must grant a non-root user access to the newly created profile. See the Creating profiles for non-root users topic for details.
  7. Optional: You can delete a profile:
    1. In the WebSphere Application Server local profile management list, select the server runtime environment that contains the profile that you want to delete.
    2. In the WebSphere Application Server profiles defined in the runtime selected above list, select the profile for which you want to delete and click Delete.
    3. A dialog box displays with the following text:
      WebSphere Server Warning
      Deleting the profile will remove the files that are associated with this profile.  Do you want to continue with this operation?
      Click Yes to confirm if you want to remove from the file system the registry and configuration files that are associated to the profile. Otherwise, click No to cancel the process of deleting the profile.
    4. If you clicked Yes, after the registry and configuration files of the profile are deleted, another dialog box appears with the following text:
      WebSphere Server Warning
      The profile directory contains files you have created or modified.  Do you want to delete these files?
      Click Yes to confirm if you want to remove from the file system the remaining log files that are associated to the deleted profile. Otherwise, click No to keep the remaining log files in the file system.
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