Augmenting a deployment manager profile with Decision Center

For high availability and scalability of your applications, you can configure Decision Center on a WebSphere® Application Server cluster by running a configuration script. You must first augment a management profile.

Before you begin

Before you start the script to augment the profile, you must install Profile templates for WebSphere Application Server, create a default deployment manager profile, and make sure that a node exists.

Use the managesdk command with -enableProfile and -setCommandDefault options to make the profile and any cluster script commands use JDK 7. Use 1.7.1_64 as SDK name for the managesdk command. For more information, see the WebSphere Application Server documentation.

Install Decision Center, which includes WebSphere Application Server and its profile templates.
Create a default deployment manager profile by running the Profile Management Tool, unless one exists already. For more information, see the WebSphere Application Server documentation. This step creates a new directory, for example profiles/Dmgr01/bin.
Create a node. A target node is mandatory. The node receives the base configuration. The node must be started and visible by the deployment manager. You can create a default node on another computer, use an existing node, or use the -createNode option to create the target node on the computer where the configuration is run.

About this task

You augment the deployment manager profile so that you can create additional nodes using the provided template. You cannot augment the cell deployment manager profile.

Procedure

Launch the manageprofiles file with the -augment options.

On Windows: <WAS_InstallDir>\bin\manageprofiles.bat -augment -profileName Dmgr01 -templatePath <WAS_InstallDir>\profileTemplates\rules\management\dc
In UNIX environments: <WAS_InstallDir>/bin/manageprofiles.sh -augment -profileName Dmgr01 -templatePath <WAS_InstallDir>/profileTemplates/rules/management/dc

where

<WAS_InstallDir> is the directory where you installed WebSphere Application Server.
Dmgr01 is the name of the deployment manager profile that you created as a prerequisite.

Results

The manageprofiles[.bat|.sh] command has the following effects:

It creates the users rtsAdmin, rtsUser1, and rtsConfig.
It copies the configureDCCluster.bat script for Windows or configureDCCluster.sh script for UNIX platforms to the deployment manager target directory, for example profiles/Dmgr01/bin.