How to create a new WebSphere Application Server from a process

When using IBM® UrbanCode Deploy™ with the plugins WebSphere® Application Server Deploy and WebSphere Application Server Configure, you can create new application servers based on a template, from a component process. This method is helpful if you want to automatically create many servers that have the same standard configuration.

These steps describe how to proceed:

1. On the Source Cell, execute Websphere Discovery, and WebSphere Topology Discovery, as described in Importing Resources from WebSphere Application Server
2. Execute the sample process: WebSphere – Example 2 – Discover & Templatize Configuration Data (WAS ND with standalone server). Note: This process will create a new component version in the component Server Config, which was automatically created when you loaded the WebSphere Application Server Configure plugin.
3. On the Target Cell, execute WebSphere Discovery, WebSphere Topology Discovery, as described in Importing Resources from WebSphere Application Server
4. Write down the full path to the Servers resource that was discovered. You will find the parent path by doing the following:
   click on Resources, navigate to Servers,  click on Servers, click on Resource: Servers (shows details). The path should look like this:

   /TopResource/AgentName/CellName/Nodes/NodeName/Servers 

5. Create a new generic process named Create WebSphere Server Resource Role. Include the following steps in the order listed. Each step must contain the values specified below: 
   Create Resource with values:
   

   Name	Create Resource for Server
   New Resource Name	${p:serverName}
   Parent Resource Path	${p:resourcePath}
   Role Name	WebSphereServer

   Set Resource Role property with values:

   Name	Set Resource Role property for Server name
   Resource	${p:resourceName}/${p:serverName}
   Role	WebSphereServer
   Property name	websphere.server
   Property value	${p:serverName}

   Create Resource with values:

   Name	Add Resource for Server Config Component
   New Resource Name	${p:componentName}
   Parent Resource Path	${p:resourcePath}/${p:serverName}
   Role	${p:componentName}

6. Add three properties to the generic process:
   

   Name	Type	Required
   serverName	String	required
   componentName	String	required
   resourcePath	String	required

7. Create an application
8. Add the component Server Config to the application
9. Create an application process. Include the following steps in the order listed. Each step must contain the values specified below: 
   Utility steps > Run generic process, with values:
   

   Name	Create new WebSphere Server
   Process	Create WebSphere Server Resource Role
   Resource Path	${p:resourcePath}
   serverName	${p:serverName}
   componentName	Server Config

   Install Component , with values:

   Name	Apply Server Config
   Component	Server Config
   Component Process	Apply

10. Create an Environment that contains the Resource tree of the Target Cell
11. Click on the Play icon on the Environment, and select the application process that will be executed
12. You will be prompted to supply the values of:
    

    Resource Path	Enter a path similar to: /TopResource/AgentName/CellName/Nodes/NodeName/Servers
    serverName	Enter a new name for the server to be created

After the process executes, you will see that :

1. A new Resource with the name that you specified in the serverName property has been added to the resource tree under the Resource Path that you specified.
2. A new WebSphere Application Server appears in the WebSphere Administrative Console.
3. All the configurations that were part of the original server template have been applied to the newly created server.