By configuring assisted life-cycle middleware servers, you can manage representations of externally created middleware servers that were created outside of the administrative domain.
With assisted life-cycle middleware servers, you can create a representation of the server in the administrative console. The middleware agent provides the information that WebSphere Virtual Enterprise needs to manage these servers. You can configure the following assisted life-cycle middleware server types:
After you install the middleware agent on WebSphere Application Server Community Edition nodes and federate the nodes, middleware discovery can automatically create representations of these servers in the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise administrative console, which means you do not need to perform the manual steps to create the representation of the server in the administrative console. You can continue to manage these servers in theWebSphere Application Server Community Edition console. Make any representative changes in the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise administrative console.
You can create a middleware server template that is based on your configured server. After you create a middleware server template, you can create additional servers using the template, which creates servers with the same settings as your original server.
To easily manage groups of existing servers to host an application, configure dynamic clusters. By configuring a dynamic cluster, the product can adjust the number of running servers to meet the application service policy. For assisted life-cycle middleware servers, you group together the representations that you created. These servers must have the same applications installed.
The logs and trace views in the administrative console are not supported for assisted life-cycle middleware servers. Configure the external log viewing service to view the log files for these server types in the administrative console.