Using the Liberty Utilities menu
in the developer tools, you can create a collective controller or
join a collective.
Before you begin
Using the developer tools simplifies the process of configuring
a Liberty collective by providing convenient utilities for creating
collective controllers or joining collectives. For more information
about Liberty collectives, see
Configuring a Liberty collective.
Procedure
- Creating a collective controller:
Note: Creating
a collective controller can be done only with the following editions:
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network Deployment
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty for z/OS
- In the Servers view, right-click your Liberty
server, and select .
- In the Keystore password field,
type a password for your collective.
- Click Finish.
Results: An information dialog appears after the collective
configuration is complete. This dialog informs you that the server.xml file
was already updated to include the generated configuration file. If
there are instructions to add the configuration lines to the server.xml in
the console output, they can be ignored. However, Administrative Security
and other settings might still need to be configured within the included
configuration file before any collective members can join.
- Joining a collective controller:
Note: You must
have a collective controller available before a server can be added
to a collective. Joining a collective can be done with the following
editions:
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty - Express
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core
- In the Servers view, right-click your Liberty
server, and select .
- On the Join Collective page, specify
the information of the collective controller you would like to join.
- In the Host field, type in the
host name for the collective controller.
- In the Port field, type in the
port number for the collective controller.
- In the User field, type in the
user name for the collective controller.
- In the Password field, type in
the password for the collective controller.
- In the Keystore password field,
type the keystore password for the collective controller if encryption
was used.
- Click Finish.
Results: An information dialog appears after the collective
configuration is complete. This dialog informs you that the server.xml file
was already updated to include the generated configuration file. If
there are instructions to add the configuration lines to the server.xml in
the console output, they can be ignored.