Creating and deleting profiles

You can create and delete profiles, which are sets of files that define the runtime environment. At least one profile must exist to run the product.

Before you begin

This task assumes a basic familiarity with the manageprofiles command to create additional profiles.

About this task

Typically, you create a profile when you install the product. Depending on which WebSphere Application Server product you have you might create additional profiles.

The Profile Management tool is unavailable for the i5/OS platform. You can use the manageprofiles QShell script to create additional profiles. You can also use the IBM Web Administration for i5/OS graphical user interface to create stand-alone application server profiles.

You can delete profiles through the manageprofiles command or by other means if necessary. You might delete a profile if the configuration that you specified in the profile is not what you want.

Perform any of the following tasks to create or delete profiles.

Procedure

Results

You created a profile to manage your product runtime environment and might have started an application server, depending on the tasks you completed. You might have deleted a profile.

What to do next

Depending on the tasks that you completed, you can start a server, or proceed to other tasks, such as deploying an application.



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