WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers

You can centrally manage WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition servers and applications along with your other servers and applications from the Intelligent Management environment.

Complete life-cycle servers

You can create WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers in the Intelligent Management environment that have complete life-cycle management. To take advantage of complete life-cycle management, you must install WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2 or later. Complete life-cycle servers provide the following benefits:
  • You can create WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers from the administrative console, which creates a server on the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition runtime environment. These servers can also be vertically stacked on a server from a single run time.
  • You can create expression-based dynamic clusters of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers.
  • You can view the performance of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers in the runtime operations panels.
  • You can install managed applications to WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers and dynamic clusters. When you install managed applications, you deploy the application within the administrative console.
  • You can associate complete life-cycle servers with health policies to enable health management and monitoring.
Important: Do not use the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition console to edit your complete life-cycle servers, except for functions that are not available with Intelligent Management.

Discovered servers

Middleware discovery locates existing installations of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers and their installed applications, and creates the corresponding configuration to include servers and applications in the Intelligent Management cell. Middleware discovery can preserve the time investment that went into building your original WebSphere Application Server Community Edition environment.

Middleware discovery can find WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1 and later and Version 2 and later servers. These servers are represented as assisted life-cycle servers. You cannot create expression-based dynamic clusters of these servers, but you can group the servers together in a dynamic cluster. The members of these dynamic clusters must have the same version of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and the same applications installed.

Any discovered applications are represented as unmanaged applications. You can install managed applications with the administrative console on discovered WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2 and later servers. For WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1 discovered servers, you can create representations of the applications that have been installed in the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition console as unmanaged applications only.

Assisted life-cycle servers

If you configured WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers with Intelligent Management, you manually created representations of the servers in your environment that were assisted life-cycle servers.

You cannot create expression-based dynamic clusters of these servers, but you can group the servers together in a dynamic cluster. The members of these dynamic clusters must have the same version of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and the same applications installed.

You can install managed applications to assisted life-cycle WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2 and later servers with the administrative console or administrative tasks. For WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1 assisted life-cycle servers, you can install unmanaged applications only. You install unmanaged applications within the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition administrative console and create representations of the applications in the administrative console.

Topology

Figure 1. Intelligent Management and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition topology
Topology diagram
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