In an IBM® Sametime® deployment, create
a vertical cluster of Sametime Gateway
servers by installing additional servers onto existing nodes.
About this task
Add cluster members to an existing node to create a vertical
cluster.
Procedure
- On the cluster's deployment manager, log in to the IBM WebSphere® Application Server's Integrated
Solutions Console as the WebSphere administrator.
- Click .
- Add a new cluster member as follows:
- In the list of cluster members, click the New button.
- Type a name for the new cluster member; for example:
Node1RTCGWServer2
.
- Select the node where you want to install this new cluster
member.
Tip: To see which servers the nodes
are hosted on, use another tab to navigate to: .
- Leave the remaining settings alone so that they use
their default values.
- Click Add Member.
- Click Next.
- At the "Step 3: Summary" screen, click Finish.
- Click Save.
- Complete the following tuning procedures for each newly
created server:
This is necessary because the newly
created server might be missing some tuning values used by existing
servers in the cluster.
- If you are using XMPP connector, configure the XMPP traffic
listening port for each server:
- Click and select
the created server from the list.
- Click Ports.
- Click New to add a port.
- Select User-defined Port.
- Type XMPP_INTERNAL_PORT in the Specify
port name field.
- In the Host name field, type
the host name of the computer on which the new gateway server is installed.
- In the Port field, type available
port number (the port range should be 5275-5290).
- Click OK.
- Update the master configuration by clicking the Save link
in the "Messages" box at the beginning of the page.
- Repeat steps 1 through 6 for each additional server that
you want to add to an existing node.