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Install WebSphere on each Node

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

Follow these steps:

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

   You use this profile 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.