Deploying a WAS CE sample virtual application pattern with routing policy

Deploy the WAS CE sample virtual application pattern with routing policy to learn about working with routing policies.

Start the ELB proxy shared service and obtain its IP address

1. Do one of the following actions:
   1. Click Patterns > Shared Services.
   2. Click Patterns > Shared Services Instances.
2. Select ELB Proxy Service.
3. If there is an instance in the cloud, skip to step 8. Otherwise, click Deploy.
4. Complete the following information in the Configure and deploy a shared service window:

   ELB instances range

   Specify the minimum and maximum number of ELBInstances.

   Enable autowiring

   Select this check box if you want all new virtual application pattern deployments in the cloud group to automatically use elastic load balancing (ELB). If you clear this check box, you can manually enable ELB for specific deployments.

   Virtual Host

   If you selected the Enable autowiring check box, specify the default virtual host for virtual applications in the cloud group.

   Scaling Properties

   In the list, specify options for scaling ELBInstances.

   • To automatically scale instances, select CPU based. To disable automatic scaling, select Disable automatic scaling.
   • If you selected an automatic scaling option, specify a threshold range and minimum time to trigger automatic scaling. The default values are 20% processor usage to scale in and 80% processor usage to scale out. The default trigger time is 900 seconds.

5. Click OK.
6. Complete the following steps in the Deploy Virtual Application window:
   1. Select the target cloud group.
   2. Select the IP version: IPv4 or IPv6.
   3. Select the cloud group from the menu.
7. Click OK. Wait for the service to deploy.
8. Click Patterns > Shared Services Instances.
9. Click ELB Proxy Service - Shared.
10. Obtain the Public IP for the shared service instance from the Public IP column in the Virtual Machine perspective section of the page.
    Note: If there are multiple ELB proxy shared service instances, you can use the IP address for any of the available instances.

Deploy the WAS CE Sample with Routing Policy

11. Click Patterns > Virtual Application Patterns.
12. In the list of pattern types, select WASCE Sample Pattern.
13. Select the WAS CE Web application with routing policy.
14. Click Open.
15. Click the Routing policy that is on canvas.
16. Obtain the virtual host for the application, such as myhost, from the Virtual host attribute.
    Note: When you apply a routing policy to your virtual application patterns, you use this attribute to set the virtual host for the application.
17. In the hosts file for the workstation that you use to access the virtual application, map the IP address for the ELB proxy shared service that you obtained in Step 10 to the virtual host.
    For example:

    <IP that you obtained in Step 10> myhost

18. Return to the console.
19. Click Deploy in the toolbar.
    The Deploy Virtual Application dialog box displays.
20. Select the IP type and target for the deployment.
21. Click OK.
    The virtual application pattern is deployed.
22. Click Instances > Virtual Applications to view the deployed virtual application instance.
23. Select the virtual application instance.
24. In the details pane, find the virtual machine with the name Web_Application-wasce.XXXX, where XXXX is a set of digits. The Middleware Status column has a link to display the endpoint of the application. Use this endpoint to form the URL for the application. In this sample application, the endpoint is sample, so the URL for the application is http://<virtual host that you set in Step 16>/sample.

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