Create Deployment Environment

Use this page as the first step to configure your deployment environment. The deployment environment includes the application deployment target for your applications and all other clusters needed to support the application deployment target.

To view this administrative console page, select Servers > Deployment Environments >New.

This is the first page of the wizard that guides you through the process of creating your deployment environment. Use this page to either create a deployment environment based on one of the IBM-supplied patterns, create a custom deployment environment or to create a deployment environment by importing a deployment environment design document.


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Create Deployment Environment

You can base this deployment environment on one of the IBM-supplied patterns, use your own design or use a design that you exported previously. When you import a design, the deployment manager must be able to access the file containing that design.

Create a deployment environment based on a pattern
Select this option to create a deployment environment based on one of the supplied deployment environment patterns.
Create a deployment environment based on an imported design
Select this option to use an existing deployment environment design document (XML file) that was previously exported as the basis of the deployment environment you want to create. The system uses the design information in the file to complete other panels in the wizard. You can either specify the full path name or you can select Browse. . . to locate an existing deployment environment design document.

Deployment environment name

Specifies the name used to identify the deployment environment you are creating. When you select Create a deployment environment based on an imported design, the system makes this field unavailable and imports the deployment environment name from the deployment environment design document. If a design exists with the same name, you receive a warning and are prompted to supply a unique name for the import to complete.

Property Value
Data type String
Default None
Range

Any string identifier for the deployment environment. This system may apply the name you enter to cluster names and cluster member names in the deployment environment. Use a short and concise name to identify the created clusters and to ensure that the named resources are not becoming too long.

Fast path: Show only needed steps

Specifies that you do not want the wizard to display configuration steps have default values. Selecting this displays only the configuration steps that do not have default values.

Property Value
Data type Binary
Default Checked
Range Checked or unchecked

Detailed: Show all steps

Specifies that you want the wizard to display all of the configuration steps, even those steps that have default values.

Property Value
Data type Binary
Default Unchecked
Range Checked or unchecked