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Install WebSphere 7 on each Node

On each system that you have used for a cluster member, install WebSphere 7.

To install WebSphere on each Cluster Member system

  1. Install the IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment software on each cluster member.
  2. Use the Profile Creation Wizard to create a Custom profile for each node.

    A Custom profile allows you to configure a connection to the Deployment Manager.

  3. Start each node as follows:
    1. Navigate to was_home\WebSphere\AppServer\bin on the system where the managed node is located.
    2. Execute the startNode.bat\.sh command.
  4. Confirm that a single cell has all the nodes associated with it at this location: 
    was_home/profiles/Deployment_Manager_Profile/config/cells/Cell_Name/Nodes/

    You should see all federated nodes displayed as folder names.

Creation of profiles may sometimes fail if the bootstrap ports (default: 2809) are not unique. You can check for an error message in the pctLog.txt file in the created profiles’ logs folder. For example:

(Oct 10, 2007 6:45:55 PM), Install, com.ibm.ws.install.ni.ismp.actions.ISMPWSProfileLaunchAction, err, INSTCONFFAILED: Cannot complete required configuration actions after the installation. The configuration failed. The installation is not successful. Refer to C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\logs\wasprofile\wasprofile_create_CustomIMFromNode.log for more details.

Inspecting the wasprofile_create_CustomIMFromNode.log shows that this failure was due to Bootstrap ports that is not unique.