Middleware agent

The sample topology in this topic shows the middleware agent when introduced into the WebSphere® Extended Deployment Compute Grid and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise products. The features of the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise product apply to the management of theWebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid environment and its associated background workload only when the two products are deployed together.

Topology in the WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment

WebSphere Extended Deployment native jobs can run anywhere there is a middleware agent or node agent. The middleware agent is embedded inside of the node agent. The job scheduler determines which node to run a native job on, depending on the job scheduling criteria information in the jobs. WebSphere Compute Grid jobs jobs (scalable batch or compute-intensive) can run on any WebSphere application server that hosts the J2EE application described in the job definition. The middleware agent is required on any node that is prior to Version 6.1.
Figure 1. Middleware agent topology: Middleware agent is introduced into the WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise products.
Middleware agent topology: Middleware agent is introduced into the WebSphere Compute Grid and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise products.