In an environment with an IBM® HTTP server routing
requests to an on demand router (ODR), the plugin-cfg.xml configuration file
ensures that requests are forwarded to the appropriate target servers.
About this task
Each ODR can generate a plugin-cfg.xml file, which includes all the handled
URIs.
If you enable Intelligent Management for a web
server, do not use the option to dynamically generate the plugin-cfg.xml file
for that web server. Dynamically generating the plugin-cfg.xml file overwrites
the Intelligent Management settings in the
plugin-cfg.xml file.
Procedure
- Generate the plugin-cfg.xml file using the ODR. You can override the default attributes. For details, read about configuring an ODR to
dynamically update the web server plug-in configuration. Generate plugin-cfg.xml in a high availability environment. This ensures
that, despite the other processes available, the configuration is always generated by one process in
the cell. For more information, read about this task.
- In a multi-cell environment, ODRs in different cells generate cell-specific
plugin-cfg.xml files. You can merge plugin-cfg.xml files
for different cells into a single plugin-cfg.xml file by using
pluginmerge.bat or pluginmerge.sh, depending on your operating
system.
- Install the new plugin-cfg.xml file on the IBM HTTP server. For details, read about configuring custom HTTP servers.