[AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows]

Managing profiles by using the graphical user interface

You can create profiles, which define runtime environments, by using the Profile Management Tool. Using profiles instead of multiple product installations saves disk space and simplifies updating the product because a single set of core product files is maintained.

Before you begin

Before you use the Profile Management Tool, install the product files.

Supported configurations Supported configurations: The Profile Management Tool is the graphical user interface for the manageprofiles command and is supported only on AIX®, Linux, and Windows. On HP-UX, IBM® i, and Solaris, use the manageprofiles command instead.sptcfg
[AIX][Linux]To run the GUI, AIX systems must have GTK+ 2.24 or later installed from the AIX Toolbox for Linux. Linux systems arequire GTK+ 2.18 or later, and GTK+ 3.0 is supported only for Linux on Intel and POWER® Little Endian (LE) processors. If GTK+ 3.0 is installed on a platform where it is not supported, you might encounter errors. To resolve these errors, add the following two lines to the eclipse.ini file to start GTK+ 2.
--launcher.GTK_version
2
To launch the Profile Management Tool GUI, run the pmt.bat or pmt.sh script from the app_server_root/bin/ProfileManagement directory:
app_server_root/bin/ProfileManagement/pmt.sh

You must provide enough system temporary space to create a profile. For information, read about the file system requirements for profiles.

Important: Concurrent profile creation is not supported for one set of core product files. Concurrent attempts to create profiles result in a warning about a profile creation already in progress.

About this task

You can have the installation procedure create a default profile. After you install the core product files for the WebSphere® Application Server, Network Deployment product, use the Profile Management Tool or the manageprofiles command to create additional profiles.

Procedure

What to do next

See the description of the manageprofiles command to learn more about the command-line alternative method of creating a profile and to see examples of using the command.

Read about planning for installation for examples of configurations that you can create by creating profiles.


Icon that indicates the type of topic Task topic



Timestamp icon Last updated: March 5, 2017 17:28
File name: tpro_instances.html