The Scaling Member feature allows a Liberty clustered server to be managed by a Liberty Scaling Controller server. The Scaling Controller directs the Scaling Member to start and stop based on Scaling Controller policies.

Enabling this feature

To enable the Scaling Member 1.0 feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>scalingMember-1.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

Liberty API packages provided by this feature

  • com.ibm.websphere.scaling.member

Features that this feature enables

Supported Java versions

  • JavaSE-1.8

  • JavaSE-11.0

  • JavaSE-17.0

  • JavaSE-21.0

  • JavaSE-22.0

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.scalingMember-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"