Adding more cluster members
Clustering provides failover protection and provides workload balancing. Complete the following procedure to add cluster members.
Procedure
- Start the Deployment Manager
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Start the node agent on each node that you want to add to the cluster.
Ensure that you start each node agent as the WebSphere Commerce non-root user.
- Open the WebSphere Application Server Deployment Manager administrative console. For instructions, see startNode command.
- In the Navigation area, expand Servers and click Clusters.
- Ensure that the cluster is stopped. If the cluster is not stopped, select the cluster name and click Stop.
- Click the Cluster Name.
- Click Cluster Members.
- Click New.
- In the Member name field, enter the name of the new cluster member to create.
- From the Select node field, select
the name of the machine on which you want to create the cluster member.
- Vertical clustering; the machine name is the same name as the name of the machine on which you originally installed WebSphere Commerce.
- Click Add Member. Repeat for each additional cluster member.
- Click Next and review the Summary page.
- Click Finish.
- Save to save your configuration.
- Review to save your configuration.
- Select Synchronize changes with Nodes to ensure that the deployment manager profile immediately synchronizes the configuration changes with the other nodes.
- Click Save.