Administration and managed servers

Typically, a WebLogic cluster comprises an Administration Server and one or more Managed Servers. The Web applications are deployed into the Administration Server and then as Managed Servers start or join the cluster, the Administration Server deploys the Web applications to each Managed Server. Consequently, you must deploy the Sterling Configurator Visual Modeler Web application Sterling.war file into the Administration Server first.

Note that when a Managed Server restarts, the Administration Server redeploys the Web applications to the Managed Server: this can take a considerable time, and so you should restart servers at times that ensure that they can be offline for the time they need to restart.