WebSphere Portal Server - New To WebSphere 6

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New To WebSphere 6

2007-04-26, 1:19 pm

Alright, I want to ask some very simple questions to those of you who have done this a hundred times. Yes, I might can find the answers if I search for a few days but I am also wanting to open a dialog on this forum to see how that goes as well.

My question:
I am installing a portal enviorment that will have the Network Deployment Manager on a single machine and then three different hosts working in a cluster for a HA portal enviornment.

Now, when installing the Deployment Manager do I need to do the standard portal install for that and then reconfigure it to be a Deployment Manager?

Or Do I install a WebSphere Application Server Deployment Manager without a portal instance?

Any instuctions on this?

2007-04-26, 1:19 pm

You do NOT need to install Portal on the DM. Install WebSphere Application Server creating only a DM profile.

David Wilkerson

2007-04-27, 7:19 am

The process of installing portal into a clustered enviornment is somewhat tedious.

The simplest method is to install the binaries on each machine that will host a cluster member. This should take place before the nodes are federated.

Once this is done you will federate each node. Only use the -includeApps switch on the first member.

Subsequently, when you create the cluster, the server in the node with the included app will be the first member (or the template for the first member).

THEN, add the other members. The key is that you don't create the cluster and "then" deploy the wps.ear (wmm.ear, etc.) That would be a nightmare I don't even want to think about.

GOod luck.
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