Managing servers

After you have added an application, added a component, and added an environment, you must add servers and associate them with environments. Your application resides on the servers that you define.

After you have created servers and associated them with environments, you can group servers virtually within server levels according to functional use. For example, you can create a server level to group together all JBoss servers or to group together your load balancers.

During the creation of a server level, you first create the server level itself and then you create server instances for the server level. An instance of a server level is an occurrence within the space of a server, such as Application Server 1 or Application Server 2.

To create a new server

1. Click Environment > Servers.
2. On the Active Servers page, click Create Server on the right.

3. Enter the following information for the server:

   Field	Description
   Name	A unique name for the server
   Dns/url	The Domain Name System (DNS) or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for accessing the server
   IP address	The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the server
   OS platform	The operating system on which the server runs

   
   

4. In the Server Groups field, select the server groups that you want to associate with the server.
5. In the Environments field, select the environments that you want to associate with the server.
6. Click Create.

To create a server level

1. Click Environment > Servers and then click Create Server Level on the right.
2. In the Name field in the dialog box, enter the server level name.
3. (Optional) Add a description in the Description field.
4. Click Create Level.
5. On the Server instance page, enter a name and (optionally) a description for the instance.
6. In the Parent field, select a parent server for the instance.
7. In the Environment field, select the relevant environments.
8. In the Properties field, select the relevant properties.
9. Click Create your server instance name.