Managed nodes

A managed node is a node that is federated to a deployment manager and contains a node agent and can contain managed servers. In a managed node, you can configure and run managed servers.

The servers that are configured on a managed node make up the resources of your deployment environment. These servers are created, configured, started, stopped, managed and deleted using the administrative console of the deployment manager.

A managed node has a node agent that manages all servers on a node.

When a node is federated, a node agent process is created automatically. This node agent must be running to be able to manage the configuration of the profile. For example, when you do the following tasks:

Start and stop server processes.
Synchronize configuration data on the deployment manager with the copy on the node.

However, the node agent does not need to be running in order for the applications to run or to configure resources in the node.

A managed node can contain one or more servers, which are managed by a deployment manager. You can deploy solutions to the servers in a managed node, but the managed node does not contain a sample applications gallery. This topic applies only to the Distributed platforms The managed node is defined by a managed-node profile and has a Quick Start console.