(Optional) Clustering Web Applications in a Manual Deployment

You can cluster a manually deployed Web application using WebLogic. This section provides a general overview of clustering Web applications. See the WebLogic documentation for more details on this procedure.

Note:

If you deployed Web applications using EPM System Configurator, EPM System Configurator creates the cluster and adds servers to the cluster. You need not perform additional tasks in WebLogic. See Clustering Web Applications.

  To cluster Web applications:

  1. Start the WebLogic Administration Console.

  2. If you manually deployed the Web applications, in the Domain Structures pane, click Clusters and create a cluster.

    If you deployed the Web applications with EPM System Configurator and clicked Setup to specify the logical address for the Web application, this step is not necessary, because EPM System Configurator created the cluster for you.

  3. If you manually deployed the Web applications, select the cluster, click the HTTP tab, and for Frontend Host, enter the host name and port of the load balancer.

    If you deployed the Web applications with EPM System Configurator and clicked Setup to specify the logical address for the Web application, this step is not necessary, because EPM System Configurator entered this information during configuration.

  4. Click the Servers tab, click Add, and on the Add a Server to Cluster page, select a server from the list, and then click Finish.

  5. Click the Deployments tab, select an EPM System Web application, click the Targets tab, and for the cluster this Web application is deployed to, select All Servers in the Cluster.

    Repeat this step for all EPM System Web applications.

    In a distributed environment, the Node Manager propagates changes to all the machines in the cluster.

  6. To add another server to the cluster to scale out the deployment:

    1. Select the server and select Clone.

    2. Select the server that you just cloned, and change the machine on which the server is running.

  7. Repeat step 2 - step 6 as needed.

  8. Start the servers from WebLogic Administration Console.

  9. Launch EPM System Configurator and perform the “Configure Web Server” task.