Deployment manager

The deployment manager provides a single administrative interface to a logical group of servers on one or more machines. This logical group of servers is known as a cell.

A deployment manager has an administrative console, from which you can manage servers. Although the deployment manager is a type of server, you cannot deploy solutions to the deployment manager itself, and the deployment manager cannot have a sample applications gallery. Each deployment manager has a cell, into which a custom profile can be federated to create a managed node.

A deployment manager manages the configuration for all of the managed nodes in its cell and deploys applications to any managed node in the cell. All of the profiles in the cell share command files and other product binaries that are created during the WebSphere Process Server installation.

The deployment manager is defined by a deployment manager profile and has a First Steps console.

The main reason to use managed nodes in a cell versus using the same number of stand-alone servers is the centralized administration that the deployment manager provides for the cell.


Last updated: Wed 01 Nov 2006 07:47:12

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