WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 6.0.x     Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Creating application servers

WebSphere Application Server provides you with the capability to create application servers.

Why and when to perform this task

You can use either the createApplicationServer, createWebServer, the createGenericServer wsadmin commands (see Commands for the AdminTask object), or the Create New Application Server wizard in the administrative console to create a new application server. You can also create a new application server when you add a cluster member to a server cluster.

If you are migrating from a previous version of WebSphere Application Server, you can upgrade a portion of the nodes in a cell, while leaving others at the older product level. This means that, for a period of time, you might be managing servers that are running at two different release levels in the same cell. In this mixed environment, there are restrictions on what you can do with the servers that are at the older release level:
  • You can only create new server definitions on nodes that are running on the current release level.
  • When you create a new server definition, you must use a server configuration template, and that template must be created from a server instance that matches the version of the node on which you are creating a server.

There are no restrictions on what you can do with the servers running on the newer release level.

To create a new application server:

Steps for this task

  1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Application servers > New. You can also create the new application server using the wsadmin createApplicationServer command. For a description of how to use this command, see Commands for the AdminTask object.
  2. Configure your application server.
    1. Select a node for the application server.
    2. Type in a name for the application server. The name must be unique within the node.
    3. Select a template to be used in creating the new server. You can use a default application server template for your new server or you can use an existing application server as the template. The new application server inherits all of the configuration settings of the template server.
    4. Select whether the new server has unique ports for each HTTP transport. By default, this option is enabled. If you select this option, you might need to update the alias list for the virtual host that you plan to use with this server to contain these new port values. If you deselect this option, ensure that the default port values do not conflict with other servers on the same physical machine.
    5. If you use an existing application server as the template for this server, select whether to map applications from the existing server to the new server. By default, this option is disabled.
  3. Configure the application server with UTF-8 encoding enabled if you need to use multiple language encoding support in the administrative console.

Result

The new application server appears in the list of servers on the Application Servers page.

What to do next

This newly created application server is configured with many default settings that do not display when you run the Create New Application Server wizard. To view all of the configuration settings for this application server in the administrative console, click Servers > Application servers and then click on the name of this application server. If necessary, use this page to change the configuration settings for this server.



Sub-topics
Configuring application servers for UCS Transformation Format
Creating server templates
Listing server templates
Deleting server templates

Related concepts
Application servers

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