The administrative agent
In WebSphere 7, you can use the administrative agent to remotely install applications on application servers, change application server configurations, stop and restart application servers, and create additional application servers from a single Administrative console. This is a similar concept to the approach that WebSphere 7 Network Deployment (ND) takes, however, WebSphere 7 provides some of the some of the WebSphere ND administrative features without the cost and complexity associated with WebSphere ND.
Before we continue, we will need to reconfigure our current WebSphere installation to create an administration agent profile and another application server profile. Then, we will be able to use a single Administrative console to manage two application servers.
Before we can demonstrate the administrative agent, we need to complete the following actions:
Create a management profile for the administrative agent
Use the
registerNodecommand to register at least one...
