Before you run services that are located in a registry, the manager must be set to access the registry. The registry contains location and configuration information for services and for the other components.
Only users with a user role of admin can set the registry location.
By default, the manager is set to look for the registry at http://localhost:8080/server/registry. This location is valid if the manager and the management server are deployed to the same application server, and the application server uses port 8080. To avoid potential issues with using localhost as the host name, or to use a registry on a different management server, replace localhost with the management server host name or IP address and replace 8080 with the port used by the application server. If you do not have this information, ask the administrator of the application server to which the management server is deployed.
To set the registry location in the manager: