Setting up the administrative architecture

How to set up the services, deployment managers, and other portions of the environment that control the workflow through the servers that comprise your processing environment.

Before you begin

This task assumes that you have already:
  1. Installing the product
  2. Configuring the product
  3. Configured ports (see Avoiding port conflicts and Port number settings in versions of WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, and WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation)

You may want to review the tasks described in Setting up administrative architecture in the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, version 6 information center before beginning.

Why and when to perform this task

After you install and set up WebSphere® Process Server, you need to monitor and control incorporated nodes and the resources on those nodes by using the administrative console.

Steps for this task

  1. Configure administrative services using Administration service settings
  2. Install an instance of the database product
  3. Create a WebSphere Process Server database in that database instance.
  4. Set up tables in the WebSphere Process Server database. This can be done during installation with the Profile Wizard or, later, changes can be made for database configuration using DBUtility.bat and DBUtility.sh batch files. These batch files automatically set up the tables for the supported database types. DBUtility.bat and DBUtility.sh are available in install_root\bin\ .
  5. Configure cells
  6. Configure deployment managers
  7. On the administrative console select Environment > WebSphere Variables > (the scope of node) > DatabaseName_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH to define where the WebSphere Process Server database resides
    Using one of the following variables to define the database:
    • For DB2: DB2UNIVERSAL_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH
    • For Informix: INFORMIX_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH
    • For Oracle: ORACLE_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH
    • For SQL Server: CONNECTJDBC_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH
    • For a user-defined database: User-defined _JDBC_DRIVER_PATH
    • For Cloudscape: not supported for distributed environments
    For more information, see Configuring WebSphere variablesConfiguring WebSphere variables.
  8. Manage nodes
  9. Manage node agents
  10. Manage node groups
  11. Configure remote file services

Result

Your WebSphere Process Server environment is now ready to process work.

What to do next

Overview of preparing and installing modules.

Last updated: Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:08:08

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