Chapter 8. Administrative Features
WebSphere 7 comes with a new feature called the administrative agent, which provides a single interface to administer multiple standalone application servers. The administrative agent can manage multiple nodes (an application server which is federated into a WebSphere cell is called a node) and provides a common Administrative console to administer the nodes, thus reducing the need to have separate Administrative consoles for each application server. In this chapter, we will also cover IBM HTTP Server and the WebSphere plugin. The plugin allows IBM HTTP Server (IHS) to be used in web application architecture designs where you may want server static content to be served by the web server and requests for dynamic context, such as servlets, to route to the application server.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Administration agent
Registration of nodes
De-registration of nodes
IBM HTTP Server (IHS)
WebSphere plug-in
The administrative agent
In WebSphere...
