This topic summarizes how to configure the application serving environment.
Before you begin
Use the First steps console to configure and test the WebSphere Application Server environment after installation.
Why and when to perform this task
This procedure starts the second and final step of Network Deployment installation. This second step creates and configures server processes by creating profiles.
Steps for this task
This step creates the deployment manager and the cell. Later steps in this procedure create an Application Server profile and optionally, a custom profile.
See Using the Profile creation wizard to create a deployment manager.
The First steps console for the deployment manager profile can start automatically at the end of profile creation. Select the check box on the last panel of the Profile creation wizard.
The First steps console is an easy way to start using the product. The console provides one-stop access to the administrative console, Samples Gallery, Profile creation wizard, installation verification test, Migration wizard, and other activities.
See the description of the firststeps command for more information.
The installation verification test starts the deployment manager process named dmgr and runs several tests to verify that the dmgr process can start without error.
See Using the installation verification test for more information.
See Using the Profile creation wizard to create an application server.
This First steps console belongs to the Application Server profile that you just created. Each profile has its own First steps console.
The installation verification test starts the new Application Server process named server1 and runs several tests to verify that the server1 process can start without error.
If both server processes are running, use the administrative console of the deployment manager to add the Application Server node into the cell.
Point your browser at http://localhost:9060/ibm/console for example, to start the administrative console. Or start it from the First steps console of the deployment manager profile.
Log in and click System administration > Nodes > Add Node and follow the wizard to add the node into the cell. You can use localhost for the Host field if both processes are on the same machine. The SOAP port for the Application Server node is 8880 unless you changed the port during profile creation.
If the deployment manager is running, you can use the addNode command instead. See addNode command.
Verify that the deployment manager is running. The Profile creation wizard can federate the custom node for you if the deployment manger is running.
Supply the host name and the SOAP port for the deployment manager while creating the custom profile.
Choose to federate the custom node into the deployment manager cell. A custom profile must be part of a cell.
Use the deployment manager to customize the node at your leisure. Add servers, add clusters, and install applications on the node, for example.
See Using the Profile creation wizard to create a custom profile.
Result
This procedure results in configuring and testing the Application Server environment.
What to do next
See Planning to install Network Deployment for diagrams of topologies that you can create using the First steps console and the Profile creation wizard.