[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]This topic applies only on the i5/OS operating system.

Creating, deleting, and augmenting profiles

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

Before you begin

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] This task assumes a basic familiarity with the manageprofiles command, the Profile Management tool, system commands, and profile concepts.

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

Supported configurations [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] Supported configurations: You cannot use the Profile Management tool to create profiles on the following platforms:
  • 64-bit platforms
  • Linux for zSeries platform
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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.

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] You can create profiles through the Profile Management tool or the manageprofiles command.

[iSeries] 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.

[iSeries] New or updated for this feature pack To create an application server profile enabled for a feature pack, you must use the manageprofiles command.

For the Network Deployment product, you can create any combination of the deployment manager profile, application server profiles, custom profiles, or cell profiles.

[Linux] [HP-UX] [Solaris] [AIX] Non-root users can create their own profiles so that they can manage their own application servers. Typically, non-root users manage application servers for development purposes.

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 augmented or 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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