Creating additional Application Servers

You can create additional Application Servers from the TrueSight Server Automation Console using the Infrastructure Management window or from the command line using the Application Server Administration console (the blasadmin utility).

To create additional Application Servers from the TrueSight Server Automation Console

Use this procedure to create Application Servers in addition to the Application Server installed on a host.

  1. In the TrueSight Server Automation Console, from the Configuration menu, select Infrastructure Management.
  2. Expand the Application Server Launchers node and right-click the Application Server Launcher that you want to control the new Application Server. Then select New Application Server.
    If there are unmanaged deployments which match this new Application Server request, you are prompted with the option of using the unmanaged deployment or creating a new one. Choose one of the following options:
    • Click No to return to the new Application Server dialog box.
    • Click Yes to redeploy the unmanaged deployment with the base port and configuration type you specify. This action does not preserve the data that was in the previous unmanaged deployment.

  3. In the New Application Server dialog box, enter the following information for the new Application Server.

  4. Click OK. The system creates a profile for the new Application Server.
  5. A prompt appears, asking if you want to edit the new Application Server profile.
    • To add or change attributes for the server, click Yes. The Edit Application Server Profile dialog box appears. For information, see Viewing-and-editing-an-Application-Server-profile.
    • To accept the profile, click No. (You can edit the profile later.)

TrueSight Server Automation creates the Application Server. You can either start the Application Server or deploy it and start it later.

To create additional Application Servers from the command line

You can also add a new Application Server deployment using the blasadmin Create command. This command provides the ability to set up an environment from the command line. You can create deployments while executing from a shell or while reading in a file.

To add a new deployment, complete the following steps:

  1. Start blasadmin.
  2. Create a new, default deployment of a specific type by entering the following:
    create <deployment_name> <base_port> <profile_types>
     where
    <deployment_name> is the name of the new deployment you are creating. For guidelines for creating the name, see the description of the Application Server Name field in Creating additional Application Servers from the TrueSight Server Automation Console.
    <base_port> is a number that is combined with offset values to determine Authentication and Application Server port numbers. For example, the offset for the authentication port is 40 by default. If the base_port is 9500, the authentication port would be 9540. For more information about ports, see Client ports, Application Server ports, and External Authentication ports.
    <profile_types> is a comma separated list of the type of Application Server to create: Configuration, Job, NSH_Proxy, or All (a combination of all three types). For information about each type, see Viewing-and-editing-an-Application-Server-profile.
  3. Start the Application Server on the machine where you are setting up the deployment. See Starting Application Servers.

 

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