Federating nodes to the deployment manager

After creating a custom profile, you can use the addNode command to federate the node into a deployment manager cell. This is only required if you specified the -federateLater parameter with the manageprofiles command or if the deployment manager was not running during the initial profile creation. You can manage all federated nodes from the deployment manager. (You can also use the BPMConfig command to federate nodes.)

Before you begin

Before using this procedure, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

You have installed IBM® Business Process Manager and created a deployment manager and a managed-node profile. This procedure assumes you did not federate the managed-node profile during its creation or augmentation by using the BPMConfig command, Profile Management Tool, or manageprofiles command-line utility.
The deployment manager is running. If it is not, start it either by selecting Start the deployment manager from its Quick Start console or by entering the following command, where profile_root represents the installation location of the deployment manager profile:
- profile_root\bin\startManager.bat
The deployment manager has been created or augmented to be an IBM Business Process Manager deployment manager.
The deployment manager is at the same release level or higher than the managed-node profile you created or augmented.
The deployment manager has a JMX administrative port enabled. The default protocol is SOAP.

Procedure

Go to the bin directory of the managed-node profile you want to federate. Open a command window and go to the following directory (from a command line), where profile_root represents the installation location of the managed-node profile):
- profile_root\bin
Run the addNode command.
Run the following command from the command line (where profile_name is the name of the custom profile that you are about to federate). Also ensure that the -username and -password parameters are specified because the IBM BPM deployment manager has security enabled.
- addNode.bat deployment_manager_host deployment_manager_SOAP_port -username userID_for_authentication -password password_for_authentication -profileName profile_name
An output window opens. If you see a message similar to the following message, your managed-node profile was federated successfully:
```
ADMU0003I: Node DMNDID2Node03 has been successfully federated.
```

Results

The managed-node profile is federated into the deployment manager.

What to do next

After federating the managed-node profile, federate further profiles or go to the administrative console of the deployment manager to create your IBM BPM deployment environment.