Adding more cluster members

Clustering provides failover protection and provides workload balancing. Complete the following procedure to add cluster members.

Procedure

  1. Start the Deployment Manager
  2. Start the node agent on each node that you want to add to the cluster.

    LinuxAIXEnsure that you start each node agent as the WebSphere Commerce non-root user.

  3. Open the WebSphere Application Server Deployment Manager administrative console. For instructions, see startNode command.
  4. In the Navigation area, expand Servers and click Clusters.
  5. Ensure that the cluster is stopped. If the cluster is not stopped, select the cluster name and click Stop.
  6. Click the Cluster Name.
  7. Click Cluster Members.
  8. Click New.
  9. In the Member name field, enter the name of the new cluster member to create.
  10. From the Select node field, select the name of the machine on which you want to create the cluster member.
    • Vertical clustering; the machine name is the same name as the name of the machine on which you originally installed WebSphere Commerce.
  11. Click Add Member. Repeat for each additional cluster member.
  12. Click Next and review the Summary page.
  13. Click Finish.
  14. Save to save your configuration.
  15. Review to save your configuration.
  16. Select Synchronize changes with Nodes to ensure that the deployment manager profile immediately synchronizes the configuration changes with the other nodes.
  17. Click Save.