Creating catalog service domains in WebSphere Application Server

Catalog service domains define a group of catalog servers that manage the placement of shards and monitor the health of container servers in your data grid.

Before you begin

About this task

By creating a catalog service domain, you are defining a highly available collection of catalog servers. This catalog service domain represents the group of catalog servers that are running on the appliances in your collective.

Procedure

  1. Create the catalog service domain.
    1. In the WebSphere Application Server administrative console, click System administration > WebSphere eXtreme Scale > Catalog service domains > New.
    2. Define a name, default value, and JMX authentication credentials for your catalog service domain.
    3. Add catalog server endpoints.
      Specify a group of remote servers, which are the catalog servers that are running on appliances in your collective. To view the catalog servers that are running in the collective, click Collective > Members > member_name. The Catalog servers field lists the catalog servers that are running in the collective. You must specify the endpoints with IP addresses or fully-qualified host names. Use the following port values for the appliances:
      • Client port: Not required for connections to catalog servers that are running on the appliance.
      • Listener port: 2809
  2. Test the connection to the catalog servers within your catalog service domain.
    1. In the WebSphere Application Server administrative console, click System administration > WebSphere eXtreme Scale > Catalog service domains.
    2. Select the catalog service domain that you want to test and click Test connection. When you click this button, all of the defined catalog service domain end points are queried one by one, if any one end point is available, returns a message that indicates that the connection to the catalog service domain was successful.