Linux clustered server: Configuring your portal to use a database

For high availability, using a remote database is preferred. For improved performance databases can be distributed across multiple database servers. Databases should also be configured for failover. Configuring the database for failover is beyond the scope of this documentation. Refer to the database product documentation for the most authoritative guidance about setting up databases for fail over.

Prerequisites: Installing WebSphere Portal on Linux on the primary node; Clustered environment: Performing post-installation tasks on Linux

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Refer to the following password considerations when transferring data manually:

For security reasons, you should not store passwords in the wkplc.properties and wkplc_dbdomain.properties. Edit each of the properties files prior to running a configuration task, inserting the passwords needed for that task. After the task has run, delete all passwords from each file. For more information, see Deleting passwords from property files.

Alternatively, you can specify the password on the command line using the following syntax:

Windows:ConfigEngine.bat task_name -Dpassword_property_key=password_value
UNIX: ./ConfigEngine.sh task_name -Dpassword_property_key=password_value
IBM® i: ConfigEngine.sh task_name -Dpassword_property_key=password_value

As with other properties, each password property must have the -D prefix and be set equal to (=) a value. If you have multiple properties in a single command, use a space character between each -Dproperty=value setting.

Prerequisites: Installing WebSphere Portal on Linux on the primary node; Clustered environment: Performing post-installation tasks on Linux

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Remember: Install the database drivers under the wp_profile_root directory so the drivers will automatically be copied to the additional cluster node profiles.

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