Federating custom nodes to the deployment manager

After creating a custom node, you can use the addNode command to federate the custom node into a deployment manager cell. You can manage all federated nodes from the deployment manager.

Before you begin

Before using this procedure, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

You have installed IBM® Business Process Manager and created a deployment manager and a custom profile. This procedure assumes you did not federate the custom profile during its creation or augmentation, either with the Profile Management Tool or with the manageprofiles command-line utility.
The deployment manager is running. If it is not, start it either by selecting Start the deployment manager from its First steps console or by entering the following command, where profile_root represents the installation location of the deployment manager profile:
- profile_root/bin/startManager.sh
The deployment manager has been created or augmented to be an IBM Business Process Manager deployment manager.
The deployment manager is at the same release level or higher than the custom profile you created or augmented.
The deployment manager has a JMX administrative port enabled. The default protocol is SOAP.
You do not plan to use this custom node as a migration target.

Procedure

Go to the bin directory of the custom profile you want to federate. Open a command window and go to the following directory (from a command line), where profile_root represents the installation location of the custom profile):
- profile_root/bin
Run the addNode command.
Run the following command from the command line if security is not enabled:
- ./addNode.sh deployment_manager_host deployment_manager_SOAP_port
Run the following command from the command line if security is enabled:
- ./addNode.sh deployment_manager_host deployment_manager_SOAP_port -username userID_for_authentication -password password_for_authentication
An output window opens. If you see a message similar to the following message, your custom profile was federated successfully:
```
ADMU0003I: Node DMNDID2Node03 has been successfully federated.
```

Results

The custom profile is federated into the deployment manager.

What to do next

After federating the custom profile, go to the administrative console of the deployment manager to customize the empty node or to create a new server.