Installing and configuring the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Deployment Manager and nodes

WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment is provided with IBM® Connections. Install IBM® WebSphere® Application Server on the Deployment Manager and nodes to prepare for IBM® Connections installation.

About this task

To install and configure WebSphere® Application Server on the Deployment Manager and nodes, complete the following tasks:

Procedure

  1. Important: If you plan to install Connections Content Manager as part of this deployment, make sure that you do NOT configure WebSphere Application Server to use Java 8 now. Switching to Java 8 must be done during post-installation.
  2. Install WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment.
    For more information, see Installing WebSphere Application Server in the WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment Knowledge Center.
    Note: Enable security when the installation wizard requests it. The administrative user ID that you create must be unique and must not exist in the LDAP repository that you plan to federate.
  3. Apply the available fix packs.
    See the IBM® Connections system requirements topic for details.
  4. Configure WebSphere® Application Server to communicate with the LDAP directory. For more information, see the Setting up federated repositories topic.
    Note:
    • Perform this step on the Deployment Manager Integrated Solutions Console.
  5. Configure Application Security after you have completely installed WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment. For more information, refer to Securing your environment after installation in the WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment Knowledge Center.
    Note: Perform this step on the Deployment Manager Integrated Solutions Console.
  6. Optional: Add further nodes, if required, to the cell. Complete the following steps for each node that you want to add to the cell:
    1. Open a command prompt and change to the app_server_root/profiles/profile/bin directory, where profile is the name of the WebSphere® Application Server installation on the node.
    2. Enter the following command:

      addNode.sh|bat DM_host DM_SoapPort -username AdminUserId -password AdminPwd

      where:
      • DM_host is the host name of the Deployment Manager
      • DM_SoapPort is the SOAP port number of the Deployment Manager
      • AdminUserId is the user ID for the Deployment Manager
      • AdminPwd is the password for the Deployment Manager
    3. Repeat this step for each additional node that your want to add to the cell.
    4. Synchronize all the nodes.

Results

You can add nodes after you have deployed IBM® Connections. For more information, see Adding a node to a cluster.

You can set up single sign on after you have deployed Connections. For more information see Configuring single sign-on..

The heap size of the Deployment Manager might need to be increased beyond the default values if an out-of-memory condition is experienced while installing IBM® Connections. See Reviewing the JVM heap size for more information.