To Create a Node Agent for a DNS-Reachable Host

The host where the DAS is running must be reachable through DNS in the following situations:

• Domains cross subnet boundaries, that is, the node agent and the DAS are in different domains, for example, sun.com and java.com.

• A DHCP machine is being used whose host name is not registered in DNS.

1. In the create-domain command to create the domain, specify the --domainproperties domain.hostName=das-host-name option.

   das-host-name is the name of the machine where the DAS is running.

2. In the create-node-agent command to create the node agent, specify the following options:

   • --host das-host-name, where das-host-name is the DAS host name that you specified in Step 1. This option corresponds to the agent.das.host property in the file as-install/nodeagents/nodeagentname/agent/config/das.properties.

   • --agentproperties remoteclientaddress=node-agent-host-name, where node-agent-host-name is the host name that the DAS uses to connect to the node agent. This option corresponds to the agent.client.host property in the file as-install/nodeagents/nodeagentname/agent/config/nodeagent.properties.

Specifying the Host by Updating the hosts File

Another solution is to update the hosts hostname/IP resolution file specific to the platform so the hostname resolves to the correct IP address. However, when reconnecting using DHCP you might get assigned a different IP address. In that case, you must update the host resolution files on each server.