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 targets. If a target is a
stand-alone application server, 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 or targets. When you submit a job to multiple targets,
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
or the deployment manager to create an application server on one or
more managed targets. From the console, choose the Create
application server job, specify server and job options,
review the summary, and submit the job.
Instead of using a 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 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 targets from the list, or select Target
names.
Only groups of targets that are valid
for the job type that you selected are displayed in the list of target
groups.
- If you selected Target names,
then specify a target name and click Add, or
click Find and specify the chosen targets on
the Find targets page.
- If user authentication is required, specify a user name,
password, or any other authentication values as needed.
- Click Next.
- Specify parameters for the create server job.
- For Server name, specify a server
name that is unique on the targets.
Avoid trouble: A server name can not contain a blank character.
gotcha
To see the names of existing servers on the targets,
click Find on the Specify job parameters page.
On the Find node resources page, specify the targets and click Find.
For example, suppose a managed target, nodeA,
has one server, server1. Specify a name that is unique
to nodeA:server2
- If the target is in a WebSphere® Application Server, Network Deployment cell, for Node
name specify the target name in the cell on which to create
the server.
You do not have to specify the target 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, deselect Generate
unique ports.
- If you are creating a server on a z/OS target, 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 email addresses where
notifications are sent when the job finishes.
If you
specify multiple email 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 targets 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.