Synchronization: Moving the changes to master configuration through node local configuration if any changes are made in master configuration node agent will push all those changes to all Application Sever nodes configuration
By Default Auto-synchronization is enabled as you can see below screenshot
System administration àNode agents àFileSychornization serviceàAutomatic Synchronization
Here I am talking small examples how it will be synchronized when we make any configuration changes
Disable the automatic Synchronization option and restart the node agent to save those changes
Create a new server>>Servers>>Websphere Application servers>>NEW>>server2
Click on default and click next
Click on next
Click on Finish here
Here we have two options save and review if we click on the save it will directly save those changes to master configuration until we click on the save these changes will be saved on DMGR profile /wstemp directory
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\wstemp>
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\wstemp>dir /s "server2"
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\wstemp\0\workspace\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
01/01/2016 07:20 AM <DIR> server2
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\wstemp\0\workspace\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\wstemp\0\workspace\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01
01/01/2016 07:12 AM <DIR> .
01/01/2016 07:12 AM <DIR> ..
01/01/2016 07:20 AM 786 .repositoryContext
01/01/2016 07:12 AM 980 node-metadata.properties
01/01/2016 07:12 AM 129 node-metadata.properties.workspace_save
01/01/2016 07:12 AM 411 node.xml
01/01/2016 07:12 AM 129 node.xml.workspace_save
01/01/2016 07:20 AM 14,488 serverindex.xml
01/01/2016 07:12 AM 10,675 serverindex.xml.copy
01/01/2016 07:12 AM 129 serverindex.xml.workspace_save
01/01/2016 07:20 AM <DIR> servers
8 File(s) 27,727 bytes
3 Dir(s) 287,976,259,584 bytes free
àThis is DMGR conig path before we click on save on the console we don’t have server2.So the changes are not saved to master configuration yet
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
12/28/2015 11:57 AM <DIR> .
12/28/2015 11:57 AM <DIR> ..
08/22/2015 10:12 PM <DIR> nodeagent
08/22/2015 10:14 PM <DIR> server1
12/28/2015 11:57 AM <DIR> server3
0 File(s) 0 bytes
5 Dir(s) 287,976,423,424 bytes free
àNow click on the save
Now I am able to server2 here after we saved the changes to master configuration
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
01/01/2016 07:38 AM <DIR> .
01/01/2016 07:38 AM <DIR> ..
08/22/2015 10:12 PM <DIR> nodeagent
08/22/2015 10:14 PM <DIR> server1
01/01/2016 07:38 AM <DIR> server2
12/28/2015 11:57 AM <DIR> server3
0 File(s) 0 bytes
6 Dir(s) 287,976,611,840 bytes free
Here these changes must be moved to local node configuration
We cannot start the server until these changes are made. Here you can see below I tried to start the sever I am unable to start it
Master configuration changes are temporarily for admin purpose we need to move those changes to Node local configuration then only we can start the server
Local configuration
Here this is location of node local configuration here we are unable to see server2 because the synchronization is not happened yet
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
12/28/2015 12:03 PM <DIR> .
12/28/2015 12:03 PM <DIR> ..
08/22/2015 10:14 PM <DIR> nodeagent
08/22/2015 10:17 PM <DIR> server1
12/28/2015 12:03 PM <DIR> server3
0 File(s) 0 bytes
5 Dir(s) 287,975,763,968 bytes free
Normally Synchronization can be done in 3 ways
1) DMGR Console
2) Syncnode.bat Dmgrhostname Support (from Appserver/bin)—DMGR must be up and running and Stop the node agent and Sync node and Start the node agent
3) Wsadmin
NodesàSynchronize
Synchronize-Moves only move update changes (example-Server2 changes)
Resynchronize-- Completely moves master config
In Status you can see black after I Synchronized if it is not synchronized it will be in red in Status
After Synchronizing we can see the changes effected to local node configuration we can see server 2 now
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
01/01/2016 08:12 AM <DIR> .
01/01/2016 08:12 AM <DIR> ..
08/22/2015 10:14 PM <DIR> nodeagent
08/22/2015 10:17 PM <DIR> server1
01/01/2016 08:12 AM <DIR> server2
12/28/2015 12:03 PM <DIR> server3
0 File(s) 0 bytes
6 Dir(s) 287,973,756,928 bytes free
Now I started the server it started successfully
Now I am deleting the server which I have created server2
From admin console if we delete that server that will delete in master configuration and it won't delete in the local configuration
We can start that server through command prompt because we have not deleted from local configuration
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01>cd bin
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin>serverStatus.bat -all
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file E:\Program Files
(x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\logs\serverStatus.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU0503I: Retrieving server status for all servers
ADMU0505I: Servers found in configuration:
ADMU0506I: Server name: nodeagent
ADMU0506I: Server name: server1
ADMU0506I: Server name: server2
ADMU0506I: Server name: server3
ADMU0508I: The Node Agent "nodeagent" is STARTED
ADMU0508I: The Application Server "server1" is STARTED
ADMU0509I: The Application Server "server2" cannot be reached. It appears to be
stopped.
ADMU0508I: The Application Server "server3" is STARTED
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin>startServer.bat server2
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file E:\Program Files
(x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\logs\server2\startServer.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU3100I: Reading configuration for server: server2
ADMU3200I: Server launched. Waiting for initialization status.
ADMU3000I: Server server2 open for e-business; process id is 14184
It has been not removed from local node configuration
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E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01>cd servers
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
01/01/2016 08:12 AM <DIR> .
01/01/2016 08:12 AM <DIR> ..
08/22/2015 10:14 PM <DIR> nodeagent
08/22/2015 10:17 PM <DIR> server1
01/01/2016 08:12 AM <DIR> server2
12/28/2015 12:03 PM <DIR> server3
0 File(s) 0 bytes
6 Dir(s) 287,968,550,912 bytes free
Stop the nodeagent -stopNode.bat/sh
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\bin>syncNode.bat Neehar-PC 8879
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file E:\Program Files
(x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\logs\syncNode.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU0401I: Begin syncNode operation for node Neehar-PCNode01 with Deployment
Manager Neehar-PC: 8879
ADMU0016I: Synchronizing configuration between node and cell.
ADMU0402I: The configuration for node Neehar-PCNode01 has been synchronized
with Deployment Manager Neehar-PC: 8879
-Start the Nodeagent àstartNode.bat
After doing the Synchronization Server2 it has been removed from local node configuration
E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers>dir
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CE57-C018
Directory of E:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\Neehar-PCCell01\nodes\Neehar-PCNode01\servers
01/01/2016 08:35 AM <DIR> .
01/01/2016 08:35 AM <DIR> ..
08/22/2015 10:14 PM <DIR> nodeagent
08/22/2015 10:17 PM <DIR> server1
12/28/2015 12:03 PM <DIR> server3
0 File(s) 0 bytes
