Creating a collective

For multiple WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliances to be grouped for availability, scalability and management purposes, you must create a collective.

Before you begin

Before you set up a collective, you must have Appliance administration access to the consoles for the appliances that you want to add to the collective.

About this task

To create a collective, you must add all the host names and secret keys for all the appliances that you want to group into a collective to the configuration of the one of the appliances. The appliances can communicate all configuration information. This information includes data grids, monitoring information, users and groups, and collective memberships.

All of your appliances must be at the same firmware level before you add them to a collective. For more information about running firmware upgrades, see Updating the firmware.

Procedure

  1. Select a single appliance to which you are adding the host names and secret keys for the other appliances in the collective. For each of the other appliances, open a new browser window and complete the following steps:
    1. In the user interface, click Collective > Members.
    2. A list of the appliances in the collective displays. The appliance that you are logged in to is marked with the console icon (Current appliance icon). Note the Host name and Secret key for this appliance.
      Table 1. Appliance states
      Icon Definition
      Current appliance icon Indicates the appliance that you are logged into, and that the appliance is running.
      Started Indicates that the appliance is started and is available for configuration and use.
      Stopped Indicates that the appliance is stopped and is not available.
  2. Add the host name and secret keys for each of the appliances to one of the appliances in the group.
    1. In the user interface, click Collective > Members.
    2. Click the add icon (Add a new appliance to the collective icon ).
    3. Enter the Host name and Secret key for the appliance that you want to add to the collective.
  3. Monitor the progress of the addition of the appliances to the collective with the Tasks view. In the user interface, click Tasks.

Results

The appliances are grouped into a collective for scalability and management purposes.