Hi everyone,

Thoughts in federating WAS 502 node in a WAS 6.1 cell/dmgr?

I appretiate all help and advice.

Thanks

Best Regards,

SRL

Yes.. You can do that by issuing "addNode SOAP DMGRHOST " in your WAS 5 profile bin. Where SOAP is the soap connector port number of  your WAS 6 dmgr and dmgr host is the hostname of where your dmgr is running.

Note: U can happily federate WAS5 to CELL of WAS6 but the vice versa is not true...

:-) happy posting

Chandra

It is my understanding that federation of anything older than v6.0.2.x is not supported in a v6.1.x or newer cell. The only way that I know how to end up with a v5.0.x node in a v6.1 cell is via a migration of a v5.0.x cell to the v6.1.x cell.

Thanks for both inputs... but you're not getting rid of me that easily :)

CHANDRA,

Ok so... I tried to federate a WAS 5.0.2 Node into a 6.1 Cell.

I'm getting the following error:

ADMU0111E: Program exiting with error:
           com.ibm.websphere.management.exception.ConnectorException:
           ADMC0016E: Could not create SOAP Connector to connect to host
           spc6001web36 at port 8879
ADMU4123E: Ensure that the Deployment Manager is running on the specified host
           and port.

My DMGR is up and running.

I've also read that I need to update my 5.0.2 upto 5.0.2.15+ but InfoCenters downloads are "corrupted".

DANA, nice to "speak" with you again (since Impact 2010).

Accourding to InfoCenter, it's possible for these versions to coexist and interopt.

In my case, the 6.1 DMGR and the 502 node are on different boxes...

Anyway... could you give any pointers (how to, or a URL) that may help me migrate the 502 node upto a 6.1?

Cheers and thanks to both of you!

Hi, nice to "eSpeak" as well :-)

There are not a lot of good options here. It sounds like you are trying to move a federated v5.0.2.x node on one machine in an existing v5.0.2.x cell to a different cell being managed by a v6.1.x DeploymentManager on a different machine?

You can't addnode a v5.0.2.x cell directly to a v61.x cell

Migration tools could be used for the right scenario but it involves migrating the existing v5.0.2.x DeploymentManager to a v6.1 cell and then migrating the federated node. But this would be in a different cell than you have now. Also, migration of DeploymentMangers or federated nodes across machines is not supported for v6.1 migration tools.

If your goal is to have a v5.0.2.x node in a v6.1.x cell the only way to do that is via the Migration tools. You'd have to migrate the existing DeploymentManager and federated node to v6.1 but on the existing machines. If this isn't possible and you want to switch machines you'd have to start with fresh install images.

Here's some pointers:

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinf...

If you want to move existing configurations from one machine to another there is a manual approach:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0905_webcon/0905_webcon.html

I'm not sure of your goal but you may want to consider the value-add versus the work involved.

Thanks