Creating My webMethods Server Instances

Using Command Central to Manage My webMethods Server : Administering My webMethods Server : Administering My webMethods Server Instances : Creating My webMethods Server Instances

To create a My webMethods Server instance using the Command Central web user interface

1. On the Command Central home screen, select an environment and click the Installations tab.

2. Click the name of an installation, and then go the Instances tab for the installation.

3. On the Instances tab, click Create instance and select My webMethods Server.

Command Central displays the Create instance wizard.

4. On the Specify Properties screen of the Create instance wizard, specify the following:

Instance Name - this field is required. Specify a name for the new instance that is unique among server instances on the machine.

Register Windows service/UNIX daemon for automatic startup - when checked, My webMethods Server will be installed as service on Windows machines, and as daemon on UNIX machines. This checkbox is cleared by default.

5. On the Database tab, specify the following:

Field	Description
Database type	The type of the My webMethods Server database. The default value is Oracle.
JDBC URL	The database connection URL, as follows: jdbc:wm:db_type://hostname:port; databaseName=db_name; option=value;option=value where db_type is the type of the My webMethods Server database, hostname is the address of the server where the database is installed, port is the connection port of the database, and db_name is the name of the database that My webMethods Server uses. Specify additional options in option=value pairs, separated by semi-colons.
Database user	The name of the user to connect to the database.
Password	The password for connecting to the database.
JDBC driver class	The driver class name of the JDBC driver. Required when using a JDBC driver different than the one supplied by Software AG.

6. On the Ports tab, specify the following:

Field	Description
HTTP port	Optional. The HTTP port on which the new server instance listens. The default port number is 8585.
HTTPS port	Optional. The HTTPS port on which the new server instance listens. The default port number is 8586.
Debug port	Optional. The Java debug port for the new server instance. The default port number is 10033.
JMX port	Optional. The JMX port for the new server instance. The default port number is 5002.

7. When creating a new instance as a node in a My webMethods Server cluster, on the Cluster tab of the Create instance wizard, specify the following:

Cluster node name - the name of the cluster node. Specify a name unique for the cluster. Do not include spaces in the name.

JNDI provider URL - the URL of the Universal Messaging server to use as a JMS provider.

8. Click Next, review the summary of the configuration and then click Finish to create the new My webMethods Server instance.

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